For this paper‚ I am interested in the topic of adolescent dating violence and whether or not intervention practices are effective. While I am still focusing my efforts on this one question‚ over the duration of my research thus far‚ several more questions have popped up for me. I am interested in the current practices of secondary schools in addressing this issue of dating violence. However‚ I realize that just like colleges‚ high schools vary drastically in their education and policies surrounding
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PTSD affects children and adolescents. However‚ knowledge on PTSD in adolescent and children has greatly expanded within the last two decades. When studying PTSD‚ you must know what is classified as a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something that threatens injury‚ death‚ or the physical integrity of self or others and also causes horror‚ terror‚ or helplessness at the time it occurs. Anything can cause a person or child trauma. In community samples‚ they found that two thirds of children experience
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Pregnancy can be a scary thing‚ especially when unintended. Throughout history‚ thousands of parents have been shocked from their daughters coming home pregnant one day. Teen pregnancy is a life-changing situation and the lives of many teenage women have been ruptured by teen pregnancy. As a result of their pregnancies‚ their lives are put on hold all because of another responsibility interrupting their own lives. When so many young females are giving birth due to an accidental pregnancy‚ the country
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sexually active then puts teenage women at the risk of becoming pregnant. Teenage pregnancies have constantly been a problem in the United States. Not only does teen pregnancies affect the mother and the child‚ they also affect the American society as a whole. Nonetheless‚ the high rates of teen pregnancies can be decreased. The use of contraceptives such as birth control and/or condoms are both solutions to help reduce the number of teenage pregnancies. Having the parents sit down and talk about sex
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Christ. The Stages of Development There are four developmental aspects that need to be covered in adolescent development. The first developmental theory in the adolescent stage is Jean Piaget’s theory of the formal operational stage. In this developmental stage the person is developing the capacity for abstract‚ systematic‚ and scientific thinking.[1] Within this developmental stage‚ adolescents are capable of hypothetico-deductive reasoning‚ in which a child is able to come up with hypothetical
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rate 3.15 children born/woman (2011 est.) HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate less than 0.1% (2009 est.) HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS 8‚700 (2009 est.) HIV/AIDS - deaths fewer than 200 (2009 est.) Major infectious diseases degree of risk: high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea‚ hepatitis A‚ and typhoid fever vectorborne diseases: dengue fever‚ malaria‚ and Japanese encephalitis water contact disease: leptospirosis (2009) Nationality noun: Filipino(s) adjective: Philippine
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Before successfully preventing teen pregnancies among teenage girls‚ there are many underlying causes and facts about the dilemma that must be first exposed. Children from homes run by teenage mothers have to face almost insurmountable obstacles in life. The incidents of depression and mental health problems‚ the lack of father figures‚ and the high rate of poverty often connected to children in homes run by teenage mothers put them at serious disadvantages when compared to children raised in nuclear
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are still in their teens according to the president of the PACE Foundation‚ Sonia Brown. We are urging citizens to take a stand and educate our children about contraceptives and the irresponsibility and lack of knowledge that leads to teenage pregnancy. Most teens that have children find it harder to become a part of the work force because their time is more focused on their child. They are less prepared to enter the working world because they are ill prepared due to being forced to be
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Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)‚ a 1978 amendment to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ prohibits workplace discrimination on the basis of pregnancy. The impetus for the act was a 1976 Supreme Court decision‚ General Electric v. Gilbert‚ in which the Court held that denial of benefits for pregnancy-related disability was not discrimination based on sex (Gelb‚1996). This holding echoed past management decisions by which married women faced job discrimination and pregnant women were routinely
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Abstract Adolescent sexual activity can lead to consequences that are beyond their maturity. The choice to become sexual active and the consequences can bring about depression‚ poverty‚ recipient of welfare‚ and inability to maintain healthy relationships. This target behavior continues to be important policy concerns in the United States. “In 2009‚ almost 40 percent of sexually active high school students did not use a condom during their last sexual intercourse‚ and 12 percent did not use any
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