Sentences with phrase «pregnant as teenagers»

Students with top teachers are less likely to become pregnant as teenagers, more likely to enroll in college, and more likely to earn more money as adults, the study found.
Researchers found that students with top teachers are less likely to become pregnant as teenagers, more likely to enroll in college, and more likely to earn more money as adults.
Students assigned to effective teachers are more likely to attend college, earn higher salaries, live in better neighborhoods, and save more for retirement; and they are less likely to become pregnant as teenagers.
Kids who can't manage their emotions are more likely to «self - medicate» with drugs and alcohol, to act out impulsively in anger, to become pregnant as teenagers, to develop eating disorders, and to engage in delinquent behaviors.
There's also some stacking going on, meaning if you set expectations in daughters» heads that they should go to college AND they should not get pregnant as teenagers, they're more likely to make it to age 20 without having a child than they would have been if you'd only pushed the «don't have a baby until you're old enough to be ready» message.
His mom graduates high school as a salutatorian destined for college but falls pregnant as a teenager and begins a life of single - motherhood and squandered opportunities.
And lastly, one of the things you can do is talk to them about their plans for their future, to help them make concrete what it is they want for themselves, and to raise questions that make them think about how their life might be different if they were to get pregnant as a teenager or if they were to contract the HIV virus.
If a girl goes to secondary school, she is TEN times less likely to get pregnant as a teenager.
Having a good fourth - grade teacher makes a student 1.25 percent more likely to go to college, the research suggests, and 1.25 percent less likely to get pregnant as a teenager.
I had good teachers, and when I became pregnant as a teenager, they were a strong and supportive influence for me.

Not exact matches

Bristol Palin got pregnant as an unmarried teenager and her mom is a Christian fanatic.
Obviously, so the argument goes, if we want to cut teenage pregnancies and abortions we must have access to sexual health services — in other words, teenagers are less likely to get pregnant if they are using contraception; failing contraception, then we should give them access to the morning - after pill, which may be seen as preferable to a twelve - year - old getting pregnant.
Dot went to work as a nurse in a high school for pregnant teenagers.
Young women in these circumstances are more likely to become pregnant as unwed teenagers.
And as far as my «idealized» world, I started my gentle journey as an unwed, pregnant teenager, and my hubby and I have been through layoffs and accidents and sicknesses and the loss of a son in our 27 years together so far, and right now we are facing a possible cancer diagnosis.
Press and television describe teenagers as dangerous and unpredictable criminals that do nothing except use drugs, get pregnant, get drunk and steal cars.
A pregnant teenager seeking an abortion in Northern Ireland may suffer from stigma and lack of support, as well as financial limitations.
Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.
I partied hard as a teenager and battled severe mental illness until the age of 22 when I fell pregnant with my first child.
Synopsis: A pregnant teenager (Chloe Rose) is left alone on Halloween night as hordes of young, demonic trick - or - treaters descend upon her house.
Depressed in his unemployment, he's asked to write a human interest story about Philomena Lee (Dench), a woman who, as a teenager in Ireland, fell pregnant, was sent to a convent, and forced to give the child up for adoption.
She couldn't get away fast enough as a teenager — although that might have been because she was pregnant and her parents were sending her away whether she liked it or not.
In Gim me Shelter, Vanessa Hudgens and Rosario Dawson give masterful performances as a pregnant runaway teenager and her abusive mother, but an overly saccharine environment weighs the rest of the film down.
The tattooed wunderkind burst onto the movie scene 11 years ago with the tale of a smack - talking pregnant teenager - and a résumé that included a stint as a stripper.
Jack Lemmon's sole directorial outing, Kotch follows Walter Matthau's chatty title character as he befriends a pregnant teenager (Deborah Winters» Erica) and eventually attempts to create a home for both her and her unborn child.
The tattooed wunderkind burst onto the movie scene 11 years ago with the tale of a smack - talking pregnant teenager — and a résumé that included a stint as a stripper.
StudioCanal has acquired the UK rights to Bruce McDonald's «future Halloween classic» Hellions, in which Chloe Rose stars as a pregnant teenager who must survive a Halloween night from hell when malevolent trick - or - treaters come knocking at her door, determined to claim her unborn child.
Hudgens stars as Apple, a pierced, pregnant teenager who flees her volatile, drugged - out mother (a truly terrifying Rosario Dawson) and seeks sanctuary with the father she's never met (Brendan Fraser).
Statistically, standalone schools for pregnant and parenting teenagers boast much higher graduation rates than the national average for this demographic; however, it remains unclear whether this type of success depends upon the standalone school model as opposed to a wraparound services model.
As a pregnant teenager, she confronts that conviction in a suspenseful thriller that tackles the justice system and white privilege.
When my son had his first relationship as a teenager, I am damn proud that he was educated and responsible enough to get hold of condoms so that they would not get pregnant.
Despite this decline, 23 Hoosier teenagers get pregnant every day, equivalent to one classroom, and the declines haven't been as dramatic in Indiana.
As I was reading this post, I'm thinking how lucky I was that I didn't get pregnant when I was a teenager.
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