Sentences with phrase «not teenage pregnancy»

One, my intent is not Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in females under the age of 20.

Not exact matches

Whether or not confidential family planning leads to lower teenage pregnancy rates depends on whether the first effect (which lowers pregnancy rates) is larger than the second effect (which increases pregnancy rates).

Let us assume we want to compare teenage pregnancy rates in those areas that have introduced the policy and those that have not.

Apart from the fact that it may cause a very early abortion (which of course would not get picked up in the official teenage pregnancy figures), it differs from common methods of family planning in several ways.

Some of these youngsters will get pregnant when they would not have done otherwise and the overall teenage pregnancy (births and abortions combined) rate is likely to increase.

Teenage pregnancy is being cited as one of — if not the leading cause — of delinquency and crime, and it has been proven to have a direct bearing on behavior problems in school and academic performance.

Apparently, teenage pregnancy is on the rise this year, and some sociologists believe it may have something to do with the movies «Knocked Up» and «Juno» which portrayed two young women who became pregnant and decided not to abort.

The policy followed to date has not resulted in reduced teenage pregnancies.

Women should be allowed to use contraceptives; maybe we wouldn't have so many teenage pregnancies!

Of course, after years of sex education in schools we have not managed to stem the high rates of teenage pregnancy or been able to prevent ever increasing rates of sexually transmitted disease.

We are now paying the price of that blind and irresponsible folly — in a drug war that we are not winning, in burgeoning crime that has made city neighborhoods uninhabitable, in teenage pregnancies and «children having children,» in rampant abortions, swelling welfare roles, sexually transmitted diseases, self - indulgent neglect of community good, and countless ruined lives.

But I worry that if I leave my children to cry it out, then they will not see the point in reaching out to us if they have problems later in life and could try to deal with serious issues like bullying, drug addictions, teenage pregnancy, gambling problems, or flunking out of school on their own or turn to peers.

There are teenage pregnancy programmes up and down the country that do not even register the name of the partners of the teenage mothers and the fathers of their children.

Instead there are single parent families, teenage pregnancies and rebellious children not to mention working mothers, stay - at - home dads and homes were both parents are breadwinners.

Teenage males who looked more «favorably» on pregnancy (saying it «wouldn't be that bad if they got a young woman pregnant») were 20 % more likely to become «nonresident fathers,» living away from their children.

Inclusion criteria: teenagers aged < 18 years; attending first antenatal appointment at public - care teenage pregnancy clinic for first - time mothers; English - speaking; intending to continue with the pregnancy and not relinquish the infant

See, secondary education is very critical especially for girls, because they come out of junior high school at the age of 15, and if they do not continue into secondary school, one, the likelihood that they would suffer from teenage pregnancy is high, two, child marriage is likely and in some of our communities, at 15 - 16 they would marry the girl off.

As pointed out above, the «broken society» narrative is not just about crime or teenage pregnancy.

Sixth, we therefore can not have a meaningful debate about educational standards, youth offending, teenage pregnancies, social mobility and employment opportunities without factoring in fatherhood.

Watching the tale of the eponymous heroine (Ellen Page) navigating an unplanned teenage pregnancy from conception to adoption, I couldn't help but think Cody was still channeling Margaret Mead through her quirky dialogue.

The lack of happening sometimes feels anti-dramatic rather than lived in, the stakes discounted because they're not about action in the wider world as if the struggles of teenage pregnancy in a judgmental and unforgiving society didn't offer enough dramatic fodder.

The society and government still have an attitude about the teenage pregnancy; they are fault and have a problem, but the government never take care and lack of enough help; for example, they have a information about the teenage pregnancies are not ready to take care the children.

Becoming a teenage pregnancy is not established and is the mistake in Thailand.

Some girl have also struggled to be the teenage pregnancy who does not want to pregnant and try to find a place of abortion.

For these, it makes the teenage pregnancy are getting scare for aborting; even though, they are not ready to be motherhood.

Program Failed To Curb Teenage Pregnancies in Phila.: A family - planning program for Philadelphia teenagers did not achieve its goal of decreasing teenage pregnancy and childbearing, University of Pennsylvania researchers concluded after a three - yearTeenage Pregnancies in Phila.: A family - planning program for Philadelphia teenagers did not achieve its goal of decreasing teenage pregnancy and childbearing, University of Pennsylvania researchers concluded after a three - yearteenage pregnancy and childbearing, University of Pennsylvania researchers concluded after a three - year study.

A researcher believes the causes of teenage pregnancy are not ready that it is a problem and ignorant.

Too many girls do not complete school due to teenage pregnancy and early and forced marriage.

The growing problem can not be attributed to declining educational attainment, or to declining incomes, or to inadequate access to contraceptives, or to higher crime and juvenile detention rates, or to teenage pregnancy, or to slavery's legacy.

I could not help but think about the environment that young teenage girls grow up in, trapped in a cycle of unwanted pregnancy at such a young age, doomed to a life of struggle just like the babies I worked with.

«Today, too many girls do not complete school due to teenage pregnancy and early and forced marriage,» said Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA.

The factors that shape test performance are not necessarily those that influence future earnings or the avoidance of a teenage pregnancy.

But family structures haven't been ravaged by drugs, violence and teenage pregnancy to the same extent as surrounding predominantly African - American neighborhoods on the south and west sides.

Section 1003.42 (2)(n), Florida State Statutes Required Instruction - Comprehensive health education that addresses concepts of community health; consumer health; environmental health; family life, including an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of teenage pregnancy; mental and emotional health; injury prevention and safety; Internet safety; nutrition; personal health; prevention and control of disease; and substance use and abuse.

However, monetary concerns and declining rates of teenage pregnancy are not the only reasons for the closing of many of these programs: changing societal norms also affect the demand for alternative schools for pregnant students.

The underlying causes of declining teenage pregnancy rates are not entirely understood, though some studies suggest that increased contraceptive use is more responsible than delayed sexual activity (Lindberg et al., 2016).

I'm not suggesting that entertainment is thin on the ground in my mum's town, but since I'm too old to join in the teenage pregnancy sweepstakes, too miserly to join in the Trafford Centre bling - athon and too classy to join in the Yates's Wine Lodge sponsored heave, I'm relying on the good old cathode rays to tide me over the coming week.

Single parenthood is not the only, nor even the most important, cause of the higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, juvenile delinquency, or other negative outcomes we see; but it does contribute independently to these problems.

Then he described its effects on Shaw herself: «What we usually see in this case is the child beginning to act out as a teenager, pregnancy, substance abuse, sometimes suicidality, sometimes that doesn't occur until the twenties, then you really also see alienation from the mother so that by the time the child gets into college and starts speaking to other people and finds out what other people, other students have been through they start questioning themselves, and questioning their relationship with their mother, and it can cause a terrible crevasse between Mom and Daughter at a later stage in life, teenage, college years.