News tagged with teen pregnancy
Mental, emotional and behavioral disorders can be prevented in young people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Around one in five young people in the U.S. have a current mental, emotional, or behavioral disorder. About half of all adults with mental disorders recalled that their disorders began by their mid-teens and three-quarters ...
Teens are heading in wrong direction: Likely to have sex, but not use contraception
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Between 2003 and 2007, the progress made in the 1990s and early 2000s in improving teen contraceptive use and reducing teen pregnancy and childbearing stalled, and may even have reversed among certain groups of teens, according ...
Intervention reduces delinquent teenage pregancy rates
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 01, 2009 |
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A program aimed at reducing criminal behavior in juvenile justice teens has yielded a surprising side benefit. The program is also reducing the teens' rate of pregnancy, according to a new study out this week.
Discrimination and Abuse Linked to Higher Rates of Pregnancy Among LGB Teens
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) teens in British Columbia are at a higher risk of pregnancy because of discrimination, sexual abuse and harassment compared to heterosexual teens, according to a University ...
Study is first to link viewing of sexual content on TV to subsequent teen pregnancy
Nov 03, 2008 |
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Adolescents who have high levels of exposure to television programs that contain sexual content are twice as likely to be involved in a pregnancy over the following three years as their peers who watch few such shows, according ...
