Sentences with phrase «where teenage pregnancy»

For example, areas with the scheme might be those in with high levels of deprivation and where teenage pregnancy rates were increasing.

And according the United Nations, the Philippines is the only Asian country where the teenage pregnancy rate has risen in the past two decades.

In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives.

Not exact matches

What they appear to have been unable to do is point to major areas (violent crime, teenage pregnancy) where things are getting worse.

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.