This document provides a committee report, together with minority views, on the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, Care, and Research Grants Act of 1989 (S. 120), as returned to the Senate by the Committee on Labor and Human Resources with a substituting amendment and recommendation for passage. The bill amends the Public Health Service Act to…

A description is provided of "Principles of Family Planning," a course designed for graduate nursing students or practicing nurses seeking continuing education credit. The first sections of the course description provide a rationale for the course, information on its curricular placement, scheduling information, and statements of long-range and…

These hearings begin with an opening statement by Senator Jeremiah Denton, which highlights the concerns of this hearing and introduces discussion panel participants: the Honorable Gordon J. Humphrey, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire; Herbert Ratner, former public health officer and editor of Child and Family Quarterly; Adele Hofmann, director,…

Recent trends in rates of sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, and teen pregnancies have led to a new emphasis on male involvement in family planning programs. Little research data exists on specific opinions, attitudes and needs of young males regarding the array of services available. This paper describes: (1) how market research (including…

This document contains a reference sheet and an annotated bibliography concerned with sexuality education. The reference sheet provides a brief overview of the results of sexuality education programs as reported in the literature. The annotated bibliography contains the relevant information for each article, study, or book citation included in the…

The National Survey of Family Growth is a periodic survey administered to women between the ages of 15 and 44 years and designed to produce national estimates of statistics on fertility, family planning, and aspects of maternal and child health that are closely related to childbearing. This report describes findings from the 1982 National Survey…

This document gives information about teenage pregnancy and related issues. The document is divided into 10 sections and then further subdivided into components. The components contain prose summaries with statistical charts. Section 1, Sexuality Activity and Marriage, provides data on trends in premarital sex and marriage rates for black and…

Preliminary findings are presented to address the issue of the extent to which measures of external locus of control, contraception use, educational achievement, and religiosity discriminate between black unmarried adolescent fathers and nonfathers. Forty-eight unmarried adolescent fathers and 50 unmarried adolescent nonfathers were identified by…

This fourth report from the World Fertility Survey examines family size preferences in 23 developing countries in which current levels of fertility have contributed to rapid population increases. Data were collected from approximately 5,000 women in countries in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and in one African country. All…

This article describes a free contraceptive clinic run by students in cooperation with the Health Department. (PD)

This paper discusses program implications of research on adolescents. A brief historical review of teenage sexuality is presented in order to put current information in perspective. The present increase in teenage fertility is seen as part of a larger epidemic failure of socialization. A number of recent studies are reviewed and synthesized,…

This study compared the differences in student knowledge and attitudes that occur between two instructional approaches to sex education in the fifth and sixth grade. It was hypothesized that students who had experienced a six-lesson, multi-media sex education program (KIT) plus a one-hour doctor and nurse presentation (DANP) would receive higher…

The document reports on five new cases and updates information on 29 previously reported cases regarding mental retardation and the law. Cases are divided into the following categories: classification, commitment, confidentiality, education, employment, protection from harm, sterilization, treatment, and zoning. Listed separately, by the above…

This report presents and interprets birth statistics for the United States with particular emphasis on changes that took place during the period 1970-73. Data for the report were based on information entered on birth certificates collected from all states. The majority of the document comprises graphs and tables of data, but there are four short…

An annual review, third in a series, covers developments in the field of population and family planning in East Asia. For each of the 10 countries involved (Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Phillipines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and South Vietnam) there is an article written by the agent responsible for the family planning…