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Search results for "teenage pregnancy" ...
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Una Realidad Embarazosa: A Shameful Reality
The story addresses the realities of teenage pregnancies in Colombia. The reporters examine the failures of sex education in schools and the lack of effective campaigns by the government. The story includes the profile of one young woman who, like many, chooses to get pregnant in order to escape domestic violence and poverty.
Tags: teen pregnancy; sex education; abstinence; birth control
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Scant Drop Seen in Abortions if Parents are Told
The law requiring minors to notify their parents or get permission to have an abortion does not appear to have produced the sharp drop in teenage abortion rates that some advocates hoped for.
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Learning to Hit a Lick
These articles, written in a narrative form, chronicle the life of a teenage prostitute turned triple -murderer. The first article explores how she ended up working as a prostitute and the role her pimp played in the murders. The second part shows how violent crime previously existed in two of the victims' families.
Tags: murder; death penalty; sex; erotic dancing; teenage pregnancy
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Children Left Behind
The reporters set out to assess the problems children in Cleveland face. They managed to uncover hazards that even the public officials and community activists who had dedicated their careers to these issues. for example, they found that half a million Ohio Children live next door to a toxic waste site. Another finding was that nearly 1 million children live in poor housing, putting them at greater risk for fires, accidents, and environmental health hazards such as lead poisoning and asthma. They also discovered that babies born to teenage mothers are much more likely to be premature, and these babies had cost the state roughly $161 million dollars in five year. Another finding was that children of color were in most danger, they account for about a quarter of all child deaths.
Tags: toxic waste; poor housing; fires; accidents; environmental health; teenage mothers; teen pregnancy; premature babies; inner-city neighborhoods; Guatemala; African American children; child deaths; Ohio Environmental Protection Agency; Planned Parenthood; Federation for Community Planning; Ohio Department of Health; lead poisoning; poor housing; asthma; Child deaths; food banks; poverty; Rocking Horse Center; birth rate; child mortality rate; hazardous waste sites; Sherwin-Williams; Benjamin Moore; Environmental Health Watch in Cleveland; pollution; youth prison; Youth Health Empowerment Project; STD's; birth control
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Let's Talk About Sex: A Look Into the Sexual Education, or Lack Thereof, of West County Teens
This investigation examined teenagers attitudes about sex and focused on who or what influences their choices, their opinions and their actions. The story also discussed how educators view their role and what they teach as well as parent; perceptions of their children;s sexual activities. The story concluded that teenagers have varying views and attitudes depending on their individual backgrounds.
Tags: sex; abstinence education; oral sex; Planned Parenthood; abortion; teen pregnancy; STDs; Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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To Sell the Truth
Brill's Content analyses the anti-smoking campaign started by the recently established American Legacy Foundtaion. The story reveals that "a $100 million-plus effort to use the glitz and tricks of advertising to battle teen smoking ... is being hampered by politics and by a bureaucracy's need to self-perpetuate." The article reports on how the foundation's ad creators are pressed to comply with the "so-called antivilification clause, which forbids the foundation form attacking the tobacco companies directly and introduces a specter of liability..." The article looks at the controversies surrounding a recent ads that showed body bags being brought to the corporate headquarters of "a major tobacco company," and describes other creative ideas that have remained nascent.
Tags: Phillip Morris; tobacco; commercials; advertisement; smoking; anti-smoking; teenagers; street marketing; pregnancy; cigarettes; public health
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Not married, with children
Sadler investigates teenage pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births in Shelby County, Tennessee. She examines different social theories: Are these children a woman's choice - or society's problem?
Tags: Teenage pregnancy; morals
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A Secret Birth, A Baby's Death: what went wrong?
The author gives a first-person account of being a juror in the trial of Cindy Brown, a teenager who concealed her pregnancy and was charged with killing her newborn. Binswanger looks at similar cases of neonaticide and examines arguments by the defense and prosecution and field experts and reveals the conclusion she and her fellow jurors (reluctantly) reached.
Tags: infanticide; Amy Grossberg; Kirsten Sundberg; Melissa Drexler; temporary psychosis; murder; psychiatrist; criminally negligent homicide
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No title (id: 13492)
Rolling Stone magazine looks at the state of abortion rights in rural states, such as Mississippi. While abortion may still be legal, lawmakers in many rural areas make it nearly impossible for women to choose to have abortions. Many states now require expensive abortion facilities, controversial counseling, permission for minors from both parents and even waiting periods before abortions will be granted. (June 27, 1996)
Tags: Rosenberg The stealth war against abortion Teenage pregnancy Abortion rights Courts 6 pgs.
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No title (id: 10893)
The series examined the multi-faceted causes and effects of out-of-wedlock and teen-age pregnancies. The series focused on central Illinois but included views from Chicago, Baltimore and an interview with then-Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders.