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Social Issues, Public Policy, and Teenage Pregnancy

p. 685). American Demographics reports that a significant trend is the rising rate of teenage pregnancies among Latinos (Suro, 19...

Comparative Analysis of Adult Pregnancy and Teen Pregnancy

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...

Aggression and Peer Rejection

acts of violence resulting "from ones reduced ability to regulate the expression of aggressive behavior in interpersonal situation...

Article on Teen Birth Rates Analyzed and Critiqued

they posit that in order to reduce teen birth rates, it is imperative that there should be further comprehension regarding the sig...

Teen Drug Use and Its Effects

people 21 and older * Underage drinking costs the United States more than $58 billion every year - enough to buy every public scho...

Program Proposal for the Prevention of HIV and AIDS in Teens

them with the behaviors necessary for formulating good health decisions. The target audience for the program are African American ...

Teens and the Internet

the social skills that one to one contact would offer them. As such, then, these teens are not able to effectively reach out emoti...

Overview of the High Rate of Teenage Unemployment

problems.... Because theyre not supporting anyone else, they can afford to wait for the right job " (2001, p.28). This is true. ...

Human Development and Growth, Sexual Orientation, and Identity

his head, and at the age of 14 took his own life. Erikson states that during adolescence the child leaves behind one type of ide...

Society, Weight, and Popular Culture

and 1990s, "the percentage of Americans suffering from an eating disorder has doubled, according to the U.S. Public Health Service...

Article on Adolescents and Anger Critiqued Critique of “Anger in Adolescents: Sex, Ethnicity, Age Differences, and Psychometric Properties”

The authors conclude that the anger-in scale of the STAXI may be less reliable for younger groups but that it is still valuable fo...

Importance of Education and Teen Pregnancy

"is the best possible option for kids" and should be the primary, if not the only, lesson that schools teach (Curran, and Witt, 20...

Substance Abuse and Teenagers

ones life when one experiences an abundance of hostility from external sources, it is during ones formative teenage years; as such...

Teen Smoking

nicotine in cigarette smoke which causes an increased heart rate and raised blood pressure and peripheral vascular resistance, con...

Film The Breakfast Club and the Interaction Significance of Teen Role Taking

not only understanding themselves but themselves in relation to others and others as individuals. Within social studies it is gene...

A Rehabilitation Program Evaluation

would relapse into drug use within the first three months after completion. More than likely, the number would be closer to 8 out ...

Quitting the Cigarette Habit and The Role of Health Psychologists

Genetic Association for Cigarette Smoking Behavior". Research in smoking addiction have revealed that along with several social fa...

Michigan's Teen Pregnancy Problems and Solutions

relationship with the mother, immaturity, inability to plan for the future, and impulsiveness in those who do become pregnant in ...

Literature Review and Case Study on Family Therapy

addition to the alcoholism. She is a compulsive shopper and gambler. One of her twin daughters, Sarah, is pregnant and claims that...

Joyce Carol Oates' Short Story 'Shopping'

than relating the events of a shopping trip. "Shopping is really the story of a mothers (Mrs. Dietrichs) relationship with her t...

Advertising Age Article on Minority Teens and Target Marketing

of target marketing. Companies want to go with what is popular and not what just might become popular. Minority teens are now a kn...

Teens, Education, and Sleep

younger siblings. It has to do with their biological clock, the circadian rhythm that dictates to every living organism when sleep...

Overview of the Latino Family's Life Cycle

use of "Latino" and "Latina," which are Spanish words, have been viewed as more inclusive and politically correct (Delgado-Romero,...

Formulating Policy on Teenage Violence

501K3066), and insists that the answer lies in the communitys response to the problem: "We have to get smart on crime, not tough"...

Adult Punishment for Murderous Teens

"hoppers" and "superpredators" (Wagner, 2001). And during one week in California, youth committed heinous crimes including one 15-...

Sexuality and Teens

(1995) respects the opposing view, saying that no one should ever be forced into viewing pornography if he or she chooses not to, ...

Preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases Program

teens living in non-institutionalized group situations at the time of the 1990 census (US Census Bureau). Figures from the 2000 C...

Group Life and Conformity

In six pages the positive and negative aspects of conformity and its role in group life are examined within the context of society...

Issues in Psychology Education

This research paper pertains to five separate topics, which are: heredity vs. environment, in regards to development; policy for i...