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Study on Teen Drinking and Influence of Parents

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...

Teens and Drunk Driving

categories (Turrisi, 2004). Being under the legal drinking age has little impact upon the problem itself (Turrisi, 2004)....

Teen Angst Theatrical Screenplay Scene

minutes, so try and act decent. Like, dont pick your nose or nothin. BOOMER: (pulls grass from the back of Angies hair) Wearing gr...

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...

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...

Teens and Premarital Sex

1997). Societal factors as a whole, however, bear examination in regard to their impact on this phenomena. Not only must parents...

Aboriginal Community Needs Assessment

of Australian society. Racism is, in fact, one of the primary shapers of contemporary Australian society. In the nineteenth cent...

Government Prohibition of Tobacco Advertising and its Youth Impact

al determined, for example, that prior smoking behavior of a family ended up being the most important psychosocial predictor of fu...

Adults, Adolescents, and Smoking

22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...

There are No Winners in Teen Pregnancy

One of the most socially disturbing phenomena is young girls who get...

Teens Should Have Access to Contraceptives

as high as it once was in the United States, but its still a problem because of the effects of these pregnancies on the lives of t...

School Nurses and the Usefulness of Jean Watson's Nursing Paradigm

no education. Children were left to their own devices to discover the intimacies of one of the most personal activities of human ...

Intervention and Teenage Pregnancy

needs to be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnanci...

North America's Teenage Consumers

points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...

Overview of America's Juvenile Court System

serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...

Nutritional Needs Of Adolescents

food. In order to maintain a sense of acceptance, adolescents often forego the necessary elements of a proper and healthful diet ...

ARK Adults Relating To Kids

positive character development (ARK, 2009). The research outcome at Houstons Furr High School illustrates the extent to wh...

Adolescent with Chronic Illness

a long-term therapeutic relationship with the teen who has the chronic disease.4 Getting to know and connect with the adolescent c...

Internet Marketing To Age Group 13-17

himself and his social significance, social networks provide that measure of acceptance every youth aspires to achieve. These for...

Parens Patriae is Sometimes Necessary

parent prevents a child from receiving medical attention. Parens patriae is supposed to be used only for the protection of the ind...

Teen Pregnancy and Sex Education

the consequences, to the point where you can actually tell the difference between those who are sexually educated and those who ar...

Teen Alienation in Catcher in the Rye

delivered, uncompleted phone calls, overtures not taken up, appeals repulsed. William Faulkner, who praised the novel, said that w...

ELABORATION LIKELIHOOD MODEL AND DRINKING/DRIVING EDUCATION

Uses the elaboration likelihood model of consumer behavior for suggestions on how to encourage teens not to drink. There are 7 sou...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Methamphetamine Prevention Program For Teens

to one of three groups, one of which was a control group with 208 students in it (Ferlazzo, 2006). The rest of the group were divi...

Drugs and Their Negative Impact on Teens

grade, "21.3% had been drunk, while 44.0% and 61.6% of 10th- and 12th-graders, respectively, had been drunk at least once in their...

Family Nursing - Teen Suicide

apply to the many diverse factors related to teen suicide attempts and completions. Three of these objectives are: 1. Reduce fire...

Effectiveness of Sex Education in Teen HIV Prevention

of all ethnicities, races and socioeconomic groups is high, as there were roughly 9 million new infections among young people aged...