YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Teens
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22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...
to speak more loudly than any words on the subject. "My teaching was silent on issues of race, and it was a silence that must hav...
for black and Latino girls, however (Medical News Today, July, 2005). Black teens were more than twice as likely to become pregnan...
more than twice as likely to become pregnant as white teens and Latina teens were 3.5 times more likely to get pregnant than white...
a precursor of their own behaviors? 3. When parents actively voice opposition to alcohol use, what impact does this have on the c...
after a period of detoxification passed, the teens began to reconsider this position and reconsider their past lives. From retra...
This research report looks at two cultures and compares and contrasts them. Various issues are included such as children, family a...
erotic scenes, the researcher will note, Wedekind plays out the boys attractions and fantasies about their sexual attractions. In...
Potok's well known novel is discussed. This work evaluates a Jewish community and the lives of teens are discussed in the context ...
times more births among junior high school girls and two and a half times more births among senior high school girls than do the g...
to 27.2 percent of females (SAMHSA, 2004). * 31.6 percent of teen drinkers were white; 19.8 percent were non-Hispanic blacks and 1...
categories (Turrisi, 2004). Being under the legal drinking age has little impact upon the problem itself (Turrisi, 2004)....
minutes, so try and act decent. Like, dont pick your nose or nothin. BOOMER: (pulls grass from the back of Angies hair) Wearing gr...
needs to be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnanci...
other situation, I believe God wants people to live and by living, learn how to handle the problems that cause psychic pain. Sea...
is "largely agricultural and the political life is local" (Deflem, 2001). The Gesellschaft, on the other hand, is "organized at th...
website, they have a "TEENS" section with sections labeled "Dirt," "Hookup," "Inside Story," "Lowdown," "This is Serious" and "YAA...
points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...
she found out. It brought my mom and I closer but my dad and I, were not close any more at all" ("Melinda"). Because this girl is ...
to do their homework and will get too tired. Also, teens need a day off each week which would preclude them working both Saturday ...
The theory is "rooted in an agentic perspective," meaning that humans are the agents of change in their lives (Pajares, 2004). Peo...
carry out specific behaviors influences the behaviors in which they engage, their persistence in the face of obstacles, and the ef...
study is well written and comprehensive, as it encompasses all of the major subheadings included in the article, that is, the stu...
of youthful homicide perpetrators present with a history of adverse familial factors," such as "physical abuse, sexual abuse, inst...
The group, in fact, leaked its song, "The Shepherds Dog" via a CD advance which was sent to a magazine for review (Eskenazi, 2007)...
teen pregnancy rate is applied to actual population numbers to determine the potential numbers of program participants. As a resu...
the standards of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy (CDC, 1999). These standards are defined by the CDC in the followin...
situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...
Journal, 2001). This phenomena is of serious concern in that it is not only life threatening but is increasing on a world wide ba...
indicates that teens are often confused by abstinence-only programs, as this approach to sex education sidesteps around issues and...