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Direct linkSchelar, Erin; Ryan, Suzanne; Manlove, Jennifer – Child Trends, 2008
Existing research on the risks of having sex at a young age with an older partner has focused on poorer reproductive health outcomes in the adolescent years, but scant attention has been paid to the longer-term implications of these relationships. Using survey data from high school students, this "Fact Sheet" presents findings from recent Child…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Young Adults, Sexuality, Adolescents
Cardone, Ida; Gilkerson, Linda; Wechsler, Nick – ZERO TO THREE, 2008
"Teenagers and Their Babies" is a self-study and preparation guide for paraprofessional home-based visitors to engage expectant and new parents in an exploration of their baby's development and their expectations for parenthood. The guide includes service interventions--strategies, techniques, and activities--for home visitors and doulas to use…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Home Visits, Pregnancy, Adolescents
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Download full textWesthoff, Wayne W.; Lopez, Guillermo E.; Zapata, Lauren B.; Wilke Corvin, Jaime A.; Allen, Peter; McDermott, Robert J. – American Journal of Health Education, 2008
Background: Following the occurrence of natural or man-made disaster, relief worker priorities include providing water, food, shelter, and immunizations for displaced persons. Like these essential initiatives, reproductive health education and services must also be incorporated into recovery efforts. Purpose: This study examined reproductive…
Descriptors: Refugees, Sex Education, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Maxwell, Claire; Chase, Elaine – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2008
Internationally, as well as here in the UK, the concept of "peer pressure" is widely used in analysing the factors influencing young people's experiences of sex and pregnancy--illustrated, for instance, by the following strapline from a recent English government-funded teenage pregnancy national media campaign: "Should I let my…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Young Adults, Peer Influence, Foreign Countries
Gerteisen, June – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2008
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is an umbrella term that describes the range of effects associated with the diagnoses of Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE) and Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). FASD itself is not a diagnosis, but rather encompasses a wide range of symptomatic behaviors that occur in an individual whose mother drank alcohol during…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, Pregnancy, Art Therapy
Trenholm, Christopher; Devaney, Barbara; Fortson, Kenneth; Clark, Melissa; Bridgespan, Lisa Quay; Wheeler, Justin – Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2008
This paper examines the impacts of four abstinence-only education programs on adolescent sexual activity and risks of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Based on an experimental design, the impact analysis uses survey data collected in 2005 and early 2006 from more than 2,000 teens who had been randomly assigned to either a…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Pregnancy, Program Effectiveness, Sexuality
Moore, Kristin Anderson – Child Trends, 2009
After a 14-year decline, the teen birth rate increased in 2006, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Between 2005 and 2006, the teen birth rate rose 3.5 percent, from 40.5 to 41.9 births per 1,000 females aged 15-19. The number of teen births rose by 20,843, from 414,593 to 435,436 births, the largest annual increase…
Descriptors: Prevention, Birth Rate, Pregnancy, Social Indicators
Ikramullah, Erum; Manlove, Jennifer; Cui, Carol; Moore, Kristin A. – Child Trends, 2009
Adolescents are influenced by a variety of social factors and institutions. Prior research confirms what many of us know instinctively: that parents can be one of the strongest influences in adolescents' lives. For example, higher levels of parental involvement in their adolescents' lives are linked with lower levels of delinquency, violent…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Drug Abuse, Violence, Parent Participation
RAND Corporation, 2009
The shadow cast by HIV reaches beyond individuals diagnosed with the condition. It touches the lives of family members, friends, coworkers, and many others. One group in particular that feels these effects keenly is the children of HIV-positive parents. With improved treatments that have extended the life expectancies of HIV-infected people and…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Public Health, Pregnancy, Parents
Barlow, Allison; Mullany, Britta C.; Neault, Nicole; Davis, Yvonne; Billy, Trudy; Hastings, Ranelda; Coho-Mescal, Valerie; Lake, Kristin; Powers, Julia; Clouse, Emily; Reid, Raymond; Walkup, John T. – American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research: The Journal of the National Center, 2010
American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) adolescents have high rates of pregnancy, as well as alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, and, increasingly, methamphetamine (meth) use. The progression of adolescent drug use to meth use could have devastating impacts on AI communities, particularly when youth are simultaneously at risk for teen childbearing. In…
Descriptors: Prevention, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Drug Abuse
Mueller, Trisha; Gavin, Lorrie; Oman, Roy; Vesely, Sara; Aspy, Cheryl; Tolma, Eleni; Rodine, Sharon – Health Education & Behavior, 2010
Youth internal assets and external resources are protective factors that can help youth avoid potentially harmful behaviors. This study investigates how the relationship between youth assets or resources and two sexual risk behaviors (ever had sex and birth control use) varied by gender. Data were collected through in-home interviews from…
Descriptors: Role Models, Contraception, Females, Prevention
Holcombe, Emily; Carrier, David; Manlove, Jennifer; Ryan, Suzanne – Child Trends, 2008
Teens typically fail to use contraceptives consistently, which contributes to high rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among this age group. Existing research has focused primarily on how teens' own characteristics are related to contraceptive use, but has paid less attention to how the characteristics of…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Parents, Sexuality, Contraception
Hutchinson, Katherine Conlon; Moore, Ginger A.; Propper, Cathi B.; Mariaskin, Amy – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2008
To understand experiences of incarcerated pregnant women, 25 pregnant women in a state prison were interviewed. Responses were coded for frequency and intensity of narrative themes. Psychological distress and recall of past relationships with mothers were assessed using questionnaires. Participants reported moderate depression and high hostility…
Descriptors: Mothers, Females, Correctional Institutions, Caregivers
Altink, Marieke E.; Arias-Vasquez, Alejandro; Franke, Barbara; Slaats-Willemse, Dorine I. E.; Buschgens, Cathelijne J. M.; Rommelse, Nanda N. J.; Fliers, Ellen A.; Anney, Richard; Brookes, Keeley-Joanne; Chen, Wai; Gill, Michael; Mulligan, Aisling; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund; Thompson, Margaret; Sergeant, Joseph A.; Faraone, Stephen V.; Asherson, Philip; Buitelaar, Jan K. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: The dopamine receptor D4 ("DRD4") 7-repeat allele and maternal smoking during pregnancy are both considered as risk factors in the aetiology of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), but few studies have been conducted on their interactive effects in causing ADHD. The purpose of this study is to examine the gene by…
Descriptors: Siblings, Smoking, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Pregnancy
Figueira-McDonough, Josefina – 1992
High rates of delinquency and of teenage motherhood in a community have been found to be associated with conditions that characterize the underclass. Furthermore, the concentration of these youth behaviors in such communities are assumed to play an important role in the reproduction of the underclass. Using census, health, and juvenile court data…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Early Parenthood, Females
