Sentences with phrase «likely as boys»

There was no difference in the rates of depression between boys and girls before the age of 11, but by the age of 16 girls were twice as likely as boys to have significant depressive symptomatology.

We also know that girls who experience 2 or more categories of #ChildhoodAdversity are twice as likely as boys who experience 2 or more types of childhood adversity to develop autoimmune disease in adulthood.

Rates for having a Major Depressive Episode range from 7 % to 10 % of all adolescents, with girls being about twice as likely as boys to have a depressive disorder.

Girls are twice as likely as boys to use cellphones and other electronic devices while behind the wheel, according to an in - car video study released this week that offers a revealing look into the driving lives of teens.

Girls are more than 2.5 times as likely as boys to have an eating disorder such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia and binge eating, according to the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health.

Not exact matches

Those making hiring decisions are likely to bring on interviewees with similar characteristics as themselves, thus perpetuating the old boy's club.

Girls are more likely to have concerns about their appearance than boys as they return to school after the summer holidays, with children becoming more anxious as they get older.

If men are brought up, as today's boys are, believing that girls always want the same thing they do from sexual encounters, and that it's evil and sexist to assume otherwise, then they are that much more likely to be impatient and uncomprehending of a woman's «no.»

If they don't want to follow God they aren't as likely to pretend to be a good choir boy.

Most likely, lots of parents named their boy babies Jesus back then, much as we commonly assign ours names like Chad and Brett.

The boy looses because he doesn't get to compete, the girl looses because she advances not knowing if she is really the better wrestler (who is ever impressed by a false victory), and the sport looses because it will likely fade away as an attractive sport for boys if they are forced to compete against girls.

Boys in the study were somewhat more likely to report this behavior than girls; those who identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual were three times more likely to report this behavior; those who were bullied at school were four to five times more likely, and those bullied online (by others) were seven to twelve times more likely.

Today, those boys got the result... Wenger is as passive as he is useless... Again, he is «just» an administrator and modern football (and what is required to achieve success) has gone over his head (or is more likely too much cope with).

Louis van Gaal has made a number of changes to the squad at Old Trafford since he took over as boss, and Falcao could now lead the attack, fitting in alongside fellow new - boys Angel Di Maria and Ander Herrera, with two more signings from the Dutchman's Netherlands World Cup squad also looking likely to go through by the end of transfer deadline day.

The Belgian champions are likely to be the whipping boys of the group, just as they were last season with just one point from their six games against PSG, Olympiakos and Benfica.

Precisely why they're nicknamed the Grecians is the subject of some debate, though according to Exeter Memories the «likeliest explanation is that the local boys of St Sidwell's fought the boys of the city during the annual beating of the bounds... Because the St Sidwell boys were outside the city wall the were referred to as though they were Greeks outside the walls of Troy.»

I think the boys like Collins there too, its likely they do nt see it as a pressing need.

I think this is a brilliant move for the young Gunner as he is likely to get plenty of playing time with the Baggies and we saw before he picked up that long term knee injury that the boy can cut it at the top level.

But the start made by new boys Enner Valencia and Diafra Sakho has had many discussing the Geordie Boy as likely to become a «back - up» striker should the pairing continue in its present form.

With Giroud particularly going to be a target of the boo boys from the home fans after his abysmal showing for France that earned him boos from his countrymen; the whole team is likely to have a hostile atmosphere in their own home and this will be a game where the team would have to prove to their fans that they can challenge for the title as their manager believes they can.

The likely absences of big names such as Edwin Van Der Saar, Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand, Wayne Rooney and, of course, boy wonder himself Javier Hernandez does open up the window of opportunity for the Seasiders, but I doubt they'll manager to squeeze through it.

And, what do you know, boys and girls — Juventus and Fiorentina have reportedly concluded a positive transfer and likely don't want to kill anybody as a result of it.

«Gone but Not Unforgotten» (written with Stephen Sherrill), May 26, 1999 «As a nation, we watched as that boy — the one with three names, Jonathan Something Something, who most likely played the son of Tim Allen — came of age before our very eyes.&raquAs a nation, we watched as that boy — the one with three names, Jonathan Something Something, who most likely played the son of Tim Allen — came of age before our very eyes.&raquas that boy — the one with three names, Jonathan Something Something, who most likely played the son of Tim Allen — came of age before our very eyes.»

She will likely begin day dreaming about what he will look like as a baby, and perhaps as a little boy, a kindergartner, or even teenager, fantasizing that he has the ideal traits she chooses.

The most likely reason for this is that the same behavior in boys is seen as leadership, a positive trait.

«Young men who grow up in homes without fathers are twice as likely to end up in jail as those who come from traditional two - parent families... those boys whose fathers were absent from the household had double the odds of being incarcerated — even when other factors such as race, income, parent education and urban residence were held constant.»

Boys who have been physically maltreated and neglected as children, as well as those who have been victims of physical or sexual assault, have been forced to have sexual contact against their will or have been victims of incest are vastly more likely to become fathers as teenagers than other teenage males (for review, see Kiselika, 2008, pp42 - 44)

• Although social modeling theory would suggest otherwise, there seems to be no evidence that children are more likely to imitate aggressive behaviour by the same - sex parent: for example, boys model mothers» aggression just as often as fathers» aggression (Davies et al, 2002).

«increased risk for uterine tract infections» Uncircumcised boys are about 10 times as likely to get serious UTIs as are circumcised infants.

Boys and girls appear equally prone to the habit in earlier years; however, as they get older, boys are more likely to be nail bitBoys and girls appear equally prone to the habit in earlier years; however, as they get older, boys are more likely to be nail bitboys are more likely to be nail biters.

As such, a baby boy is likely to reach for the toy rack sooner.

It's hard to believe that they are 16 and 18 now; and I'll likely always think of the as my «little boys», even though they both tower over me by a good 6 inches.

Boys are the ones more likely to be the bed wetter, where as the older child, who wets through the day seems to be almost completely confined to girls.

I was at first concerned that it would be a problem, and maybe it will as Sadie gets older, but the most I've noticed is a couple of gawks from teenage boys who have likely never seen something so natural (which I guess is what normalization is all about!)

I choose watching my boys wade through the awkwardness of life as teenagers, and when it's likely that they'll want nothing to do with me, I choose to be there to embarrass them anyway.

Chester is likely to get more popular as parents to be remember this long forgotten, and beautiful, name for their baby boys.

That is exactly how you will feel once your baby boy is born, and likely how he will feel with you as his parents.

«I'm humbled,» said Molinaro, who said he's gone from receiving food stamps as a boy to being the likely nominee of a major political party for governor of New York.

Many of them already find the odds stacked against them: the poor white boys who struggle through school; the young black men who are twice as likely to be unemployed as their peers; the children growing up in the poorest neighbourhoods.

It's not easy for gay youth in rural British Columbia: «Gay or bisexual teenage boys living in rural B.C. are nearly twice as likely to have attempted suicide and been physically sexually harassed in the past year than their peers in urban centres.»

Compared with boys, girls were less likely to perceive themselves as being good at math, even when there was no significant difference in their mathematical abilities.

Cross-cultural data show that prehomosexual boys are more attracted to solitary sports such as swimming, cycling and tennis than they are to rougher contact sports such as football and soccer; they are also less likely to be childhood bullies.

The impact of having a boy compared with a girl is likely to be most pronounced in settings where resources such as food and health care are poor.

Among women living in a small Ethiopian community, those with the most fat and muscle mass in their upper arms were more than twice as likely to have boy babies as those women with the thinnest arms.

Led by UC Berkeley psychologist Stephen Hinshaw, BGALS has consistently found that — unlike boys, whose symptoms are more overt — girls with ADHD suffer in hidden ways, and are more likely to internalize struggles as they mature into adolescence and young adulthood.

In February 2008 a study revealed that baby boys who are born either short or with low birth weight are more likely to commit violent suicide as adults than longer and heavier babies are, irrespective of their height and weight as adults.

As the odds were in favour of men with more sons seeing a son return from the war, those sons were more likely to father boys themselves because they inherited that tendency from their fathers.

In children ages 1 - 6, boys were more than twice as likely as girls to receive an antipsychotic prescription (0.16 vs. 0.06 percent in 2010).

The study found that teachers are more likely to see academic challenges as disabilities when white boys exhibit them than when boys of color exhibit the same difficulties.

«We found prenatal SSRI exposure was nearly 3 times as likely in boys with ASD relative to typical development, with the greatest risk when exposure took place during the first trimester,» said Li - Ching Lee, Ph.D., Sc.M., psychiatric epidemiologist in the Bloomberg School's Department of Epidemiology.