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The theory is "rooted in an agentic perspective," meaning that humans are the agents of change in their lives (Pajares, 2004). Peo...
indicates that teens are often confused by abstinence-only programs, as this approach to sex education sidesteps around issues and...
rose from 40.5 births per 1,000 females aged 15-19 in 2005 to 41.9 births per 1,000 in 2006--a 3 percent increase" ("National Camp...
its production and distribution down to a science, when it comes to marketing movies, there is always room for improvement. Lionsg...
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 ...
makes clear, efforts are needed in order to explore the reasons why African American adolescents often do not seek prenatal care a...
more quickly than that (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). The most negative aspect of cocaine use is of course the possibility o...
the same time, researchers have also argued that in the year 2002, children in the United States are somewhat less likely to die d...
lack thereof - will most certainly be the cause of an accident (Croal, 2005). II. THREE RESEARCH QUESTIONS The strength of...
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...
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...
of ADHD. Another disorder that is frequently associated with school failure is Conduct Disorder (CD), which is characterized in ...
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...
group, as expected, there are quite a bit of pregnancies for the teenagers. This is true despite the fact that there is a decline ...
22.4% (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2004). Cigarettes, once considered glamorous and chic, have emerged as t...
of Australian society. Racism is, in fact, one of the primary shapers of contemporary Australian society. In the nineteenth cent...
al determined, for example, that prior smoking behavior of a family ended up being the most important psychosocial predictor of fu...
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...
points out that an ideal engine, in optimum condition could theoretically conceive 100 percent efficiency, but that real-world req...
affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...
of distinguishing cultures within the larger diaspora through linguistic boundaries. What is Language? Language in...
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...
p. 685). American Demographics reports that a significant trend is the rising rate of teenage pregnancies among Latinos (Suro, 19...
1997). Societal factors as a whole, however, bear examination in regard to their impact on this phenomena. Not only must parents...
age of 15, "compared with 21 percent of Hispanics and 16 percent of non-Hispanic whites" (Non-Hispanic black teens, 2003; p. 7). ...