Sentences with phrase «with teenage pregnancy»

Findings indicate that having a sibling with a teenage pregnancy history predicts less consistent condom use 2 years later.

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His youth was surrounded by family members who struggled with substance abuse, violence, teenage pregnancy, and lack of social mobility.

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.

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

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.

This is very important because, although the remit of the Teenage Pregnancy Unit is to cut pregnancy rates, one of its main policy recommendations that it emphasises year after year is to provide youngsters with easier and better access to confidential Pregnancy Unit is to cut pregnancy rates, one of its main policy recommendations that it emphasises year after year is to provide youngsters with easier and better access to confidential pregnancy rates, one of its main policy recommendations that it emphasises year after year is to provide youngsters with easier and better access to confidential abortion.

So there is much to be worried about, especially with regard to the continuing pressures the Church faces to conform to the perceived wisdom about how to respond to problems such as early sexual activity, teenage pregnancy and STIs.

But if you're conceived by a teenage mom who drinks during pregnancy so that you're born with fetal alcohol effects, the odds are overwhelmingly stacked against you from before birth.

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.

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:

Alabama and Mississippi: the most unhealthy region (e.g., the most obese, the most with cardiovascular diseases and etc.), the highest illiteracy rate, the highest teenage pregnancy rates, the most cities ranking in the top 25 most crimes, the most likely to regect scientific facts, the least taxed, the least to be unionized thus the highest proportion of the population in poverty... and of course, the most religious....

With a series of multicolor charts, Barton shows that beginning in 1962 the number of teenage pregnancies, divorces and single - parent families went up, as did rates for sexually transmitted diseases and violent crime.

After consultation with parents, priests, teachers, governors and students the Diocesan Department of Religious Education of the Archdiocese of Birmingham entered into negotiation with the Local Authority and Teenage Pregnancy Unit [1] to develop a sex and relationship resource for Catholic schools.

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.

Case study (Young Fathers): Mainstreaming engagement in a Teenage Pregnancy Service Mainstreaming engagement with young fathers in its service for young parents is a serious concern for Hull's Teenage Pregnancy Support Service.

Course participants will gain clear understanding of how effective work with boys and young men can be developed; increase in confidence and ability to ensure that policies are put into practice; and increase in confidence and ability to ensure that work with young men is integrated into teenage pregnancy strategies.

• There is also tentative evidence from the US of a link between strong child support enforcement and reduced pregnancy and pregnancy resolution in teenage girls, with the strongest effect for non-Hispanic whites (Plotnick et al, 2004).

• The National Service Framework for Children, Young People & Maternity Services (September 2004), and the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy (June 1999, updated in Teenage Pregnancy Next Steps, July 2006), require Children's Services to engage systematically with fathers and mothers to improve children's wellbeing; and consult with both parents over service design.

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.

Helping adolescent males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child health perspective: research that controlled for maternal age and other key factors found teenage fatherhood associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death (Chen et al, 2007).

However, recent practice suggests that if professionals systematically gather the young men's details by, for instance, routinely asking the mothers for them early in the pregnancy, develop interagency working while making child outcomes the focus of their work and mainstream engagement through the service (in this case, a teenage pregnancy service) while keeping good records and comprehensively assessing the young men's needs substantial numbers of young fathers can be reached with interventions that make a real difference.

With the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and the increase in teen pregnancy rates, teenage sexual activity has serious consequences that we'd like to avoid.

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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

She indicated that lack of jobs for the youth, teenage pregnancy and adolescent marriages are some of the major concerns of the region therefore pleaded with government to ensure the Central region is fully considered in the implementation of these initiatives to facilitate job creation as well as provide soft loans to enable women especially build businesses and their capacity.

In support of this, as adults we should endeavour to equip young people with the knowledge and resources to be able to protect themselves against STIs, unintended pregnancy and their consequences; earlier advertising of condoms and pregnancy advisory services will be a step forward in meeting this aim and may contribute to lowering high rates of teenage pregnancy as part of a concerted strategy.

I want to help educate female teenagers about sex and teenage pregnancy with my own life experience

Countries with more conservative attitudes towards sex education (including the UK and the U.S.) have a higher incidence of STDs and teenage pregnancy.

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.

There is frequent talk of drug abuse and addiction, along with prostitution, multiple teenage pregnancies, child mortality and alcoholism.

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.

They first paired up in 2007 with the brilliant coming - of - age comedy Juno, the story of a sarcastic teenage girl (Ellen Page) and her unplanned pregnancy.

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

Nurturing educator Pete Dixon (Lloyd Haynes), flighty student teacher Alice Johnson (Karen Valentine), justice - minded counselor Liz McIntyre (Denise Nicholas), and gruff / pushover principal Seymour Kaufman (Michael Constantine) come to grips with school violence, teenage pregnancy, homosexuality, interracial dating, and questioning the English - curriculum canon.

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.

Abtract: The objective of this study was to examine the experiences of teenage mothers with unwanted pregnancies, in the context of gender - power relations within the patriarchal capitalist system, using a socialist feminist perspective.

From the study, the experiences of a teenage mothers with unwanted pregnancy; their children are 2 years old and they were born in Phichit province.

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).

Teenage pregnancies are common in the community, high levels of sexual abuse exist, and gender roles often burden young girls with significant domestic duties.

In 2014, Gutierrez introduced a sexual citizenship program with the aim of reducing teenage pregnancies and teaching his students how to recognise what sexual abuse is.

Teenage pregnancies are also common in the community, high levels of sexual abuse exist, and gender roles often burden young girls with significant domestic duties.

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.

The play deals with themes of homophobia, homosexuality, domestic abuse, bullying, teenage pregnancy and suicide.

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.

The goal of support programs for pregnant and parenting teenagers, put simply, is to buck these trends: generally speaking, programs that provide support for teenage parents seek to reduce their dropout rates, including through the prevention of further unplanned pregnancies (teenage parents of more than one child are even more likely to drop out than those with only one).

The Connecticut Department of Education, for example, provides a program known as the Support for Pregnant and Parenting Teenagers (SPPT) grant, which operates in the five districts statewide with the highest rates of teenage pregnancy.

Stephen Robertson, in his article «Age of Consent Laws», states: «Narrowly concerned with sexual violence, and with girls, originally, since the 19th century the age of consent has occupied a central place in debates over the nature of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, and been drawn into campaigns against prostitution and child marriage, struggles to achieve gender and sexual equality, and the response to teenage pregnancy.»

Research shows that citizens are more likely to engage with non-statutory bodies around issues like lifestyle changes, alcohol and teenage pregnancy.

The vast majority of teenage pregnancies are unplanned, and with comprehensive knowledge about pregnancy prevention, we can empower young people to have control over the order of events that make up their lives.

Sisters Saving Sisters is a 5 - module curriculum designed to empower young, teenage women to change their behavior in ways that will reduce their risk of becoming infected with HIV and other STDs, and significantly decrease their chances of being involved in unintended pregnancies.