Sentences with phrase «on teenage pregnancy»

across 25 sites nationwide from 1991 through 1995, concentrating on the program's impact on teenage pregnancy, course failure, and school suspension.

The Social Exclusion Report on Teenage Pregnancy, published several years ago, barely gave fathers a mention.

Dr Sourafel Girma of Nottingham University and myself [5] have carried out an extensive analysis of the impact of these schemes on teenage pregnancy rates.

Not exact matches

Phoebe Thompson, editor of Premier Youthwork Magazaine thinks a number of factors are behind the changes in teenage behavior, on Premier's «News Hour» programme, she said: «the government has taken to make smoking less appealing by covering packets and also putting the long term effects on there, and also the rise of contraception and better sex education probably has contributed to the lowering of teenage pregnancies».

The research evidence on this question is hard to deny and right in line with the predictions of the economic models: prohibition of secret abortions cuts both teenage abortion rates and teenage pregnancy rates.

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).

This involves making sure that the areas ingroups with and without the schemes are similar in other respects unemployment, educational levels, ethnic mix, starting teenage pregnancy rates and so on.

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.

Like It Is which is run by Marie Stopes International (MSI) and is described as a website for 11 - 15 year olds, providing advice on issues such as contraception, periods, teenage pregnancy, sex and sexuality.

According to Chief Justice Rehnquist, Congress» 1981 decision to augment the role of religious and other organizations in tackling the social and economic problems caused by teenage pregnancy, sexuality, and parenthood reflected «the entirely appropriate aim of increasing broad - based community involvement...» He went on to say, with respect to religious organizations in particular:

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.

The Toolkit is designed to help managers and practitioners meet the strong policy requirements for father - inclusive services coming from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, and elsewhere: in the Children's Centre Guidance, the Childcare Act 2006, the National Services Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services, the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, the Gender Equality Duty (in the Equality Act, 2006), and so on.

They are currently set out in Chapter 4 of Joint Birth Registration: Recording Responsibility under the title «further proposals» — and will impact significantly on culture and practice in maternity and teenage pregnancy services.

• explain current policy requirements for mainstreaming father - inclusive practice across all teenage pregnancy and Children's Centre services; • offer guidance on key steps to take to enhance outcomes for children through developing father - inclusive services; • showcase examples of effective father - inclusive practice in teenage pregnancy and Children's Centre services; • help managers plan their response to this increasingly important policy agenda.

But Speer said the program, part of the Lake County Coalition on Teen Pregnancy, represents «a drop in the bucket «and estimated there are about 1,200 teenage mothers in Waukegan, North Chicago and Zion alone.

Researchers using a pool from both the U.S. and New Zealand found strong evidence that father absence has an effect on early sexual activity and teenage pregnancy.

Our guides cover everything from comprehensive, expert sleep hygiene and parenting information for newborns through teenage years to helpful resources on sleep disorders and nutrition to help women and families during and after pregnancy to gain an increased understanding of the often confusing science behind sleep.

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.

A definitive guide to the parent on pregnancy and childrearing from infancy to the teenage years.

Paid for by fundamentalist group Christian Voice, the advert in the New Statesman entitled, «Violent crime - sowing and reaping», condemned government health policies, including giving a key cancer vaccine on the NHS, for focusing on curbing teenage pregnancy at the expense, the advert claimed, of teenage fertility.

The Network is also calling on all stakeholders, opinion leaders and faith - based Organisations to to help the high rate of teenage pregnancy in the ASSIN

«Figures are quite alarming... we really need to do a lot about teenage pregnancy in Ghana» she said on Joy FM's Super Morning Show Monday.

On the internal evidence for the dating of 1 Clement, Welborn writes (The Anchor Bible Dictionary, v. 1, p. 1060): The Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in females under the age of 20.

This and her later works - Rita, Sue and Bob Too and Sheila - looked candidly at life on Bradford estates, dealing with subjects like teenage pregnancy, drug addiction and extra-marital affairs.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

Working as a doctor on a pregnancy ward, Miller lives with the horrors of teenage pregnancy on a daily basis.

This study, the researcher uses the conceptual framework of masculine capitalism follow the feminist concept to explain on the teenage mothers with unwanted pregnancies experiences.

The study in focused on the experiences of the unwanted teenage pregnancy that are 13 - 21 years old around 10 volunteers.

Johnson takes no stand on the argument that the increasing use of violence and sex in the games and on TV is having deleterious effects on society, but he does note the drop in murder and crime generally that has occurred in tandem with the rise of the video game (and he might also have pointed to the drop in teenage pregnancies).

As of 18 January 2018, information on why children are being educated outside of schools, such as teenage pregnancy and mental health issues will be recorded and collected.

The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, avoiding teenage pregnancy, and the quality of the neighborhood in which they reside as adults.

While the nation's governors failed to rally behind a single recommendation last week on how Congress should structure a new welfare system, they did agree that any overhaul should include services to poor children and provide assistance to prevent teenage pregnancy.

On measures like poverty, access to health care, homelessness, teenage pregnancy, and nutrition, the condition of America's children differs little from that of a third - world country.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

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.

The paper, by Raj Chetty and John N. Friedman of Harvard and Jonah E. Rockoff of Columbia, tracked 2.5 million students over 20 years, and using a value added approach, found that teachers who help students raise their standardized test scores have a lasting positive effect on those students» lives beyond academics, including lower teenage - pregnancy rates, greater college matriculation and higher adult earnings.

These moving stories explore spiritual insights on universal themes such as grief, alcoholism, marriage breakup, domestic violence, teenage pregnancy, poverty and homelessness.

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.

A youth advocate works on causes related to the youth like drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, peer pressure, alcohol abuse and so on and must have the background information about these issues so that he can promote these causes to the general public.

A prospective cohort study of the impact of domestic violence on young teenage pregnancy outcomes

Parenting classes and family support, teenage pregnancy, employee rights when on leave, register a birth.

Some studies have made an effort to examine the influence of context on risks for teenage pregnancy by incorporating multilevel approaches.

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.

Driving the movement is research by a Nobel Prize - winning economist, James J. Heckman, and others showing that each dollar devoted to the nurturing of young children can eliminate the need for far greater government spending on remedial education, teenage pregnancy and prisons.

What the authors apparently missed, of course, is two decades of research attesting to the impact of father absence on the well - being of children, including increased risk for school failure, emotional and behavioral problems, juvenile crime, and teenage pregnancy.

I replied on Julie's comment because I agree with her account that there could be very large challenges with some foster care adoptions and some special needs children from other countries compared to just an economic need or a healthy teenage unwanted pregnancy.