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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent

Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Sexual Activity Among Adolescents and Young Adults

The link between growing up outside of an intact family, and the likelihood of engaging in risky sexual behaviors as an adolescent has been explored extensively. But fewer studies examine the age of onset of sexual activity and the likelihood of risky sexual behaviors among adolescents within intact families, specifically married-parent families,
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent

Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Educational Outcomes for Youth

This research examines the effects of parental marital quality and the quality of the parent-child relationship on the educational progress of adolescents. Previous research indicates that family structure and economic capacity have significant effects on educational achievement and high school graduation rates. Few studies, however, have examin
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HHS Funding for Abstinence Education, Education

HHS Funding for Abstinence Education, Education for Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STD Prevention, and Other Programs that Address Adolescent Sexual Activity

The report presents a detailed breakdown comparing Departmental funding for abstinence education, adhering to the A-H definition, with other Departmental funding used to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. [19 PDF pages]
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Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers

Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers' Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns

This report examines potential precursors of the changes in adult marriage patterns in recent decades. It draws on data from four large national surveys to examine the experiences and attitudes of teenagers to gain a better understanding of factors that influence their views of marriage and their relationship choices in adulthood. The report analy
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist to Address Those Challenges? Annotated Bibliography

The Annotated Bibliography is the result of a comprehensive review of literature on the strengths and challenges that affect boys ages 10 through 18. It provides evidence-based work that highlights the challenges boys face and investigates what strengths, such as the positive impact that caring adults in families, schools, and communities, can
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist to Address Those Challenges? Initial Findings Brief

This brief gathers and synthesizes statistics and research related to risks for boys across multiple domains, identifies successful interventions, and offers concrete suggestions for how caring community members can help support boys in their adolescence and as they transition to adulthood. Research on mortality and victimization; delinquency an
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Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who

Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care Through Their Middle Twenties

A primary task for youth in transitioning to adulthood is sustaining employment to be self-sufficient. Studies of former youth who age out of foster care find that they generally experience unstable employment patterns and earn very low incomes between ages 18 and 20. However, less is known about whether these youths' initial patterns of employm
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First Year Impacts of the Heritage Keepers Life

First Year Impacts of the Heritage Keepers Life Skills Education Component

This report is part of the larger evaluation of a select group of Title V, Section 510, abstinence programs. This report examines the short-term impacts of providing a life skills education component to middle and high school youth in Edgefield, South Carolina. All the youth participating in the Life Skills Education Component have also participat
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Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood

Vulnerable Youth and the Transition to Adulthood

Principal Investigators: Jennifer Macomber and Michael Pergamit The Urban Institute Background
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing and What

What Challenges Are Boys Facing and What Opportunities Exist to Address those Challenges?

Principal Investigator: JBS International Overview Many adolescent boys are doing well. They graduate from high school, stay out of trouble, and reach adulthood prepared for the world of work and the responsibilities of family. For young men like these, opportunities have never been greater.
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Relationship Strengths in Married Families:

Relationship Strengths in Married Families: Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships, Data and Variable Codebook

Principle Investigator: Elizabeth C. Hair, Child Trends Project Page: Relationship Strengths in Married Families
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Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual

Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health: Evidence and Opportunities

Influence of New Media on Adolescent Sexual Health: Evidence and Opportunities Working Paper April 2011 By: Rebecca L. Collins, Steven C. Martino, Rebecca Shaw Rand This report is available on the Internet at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/11/AdolescentSexualActivity/NewMediaLitRev/
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Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent

Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Sexual Activity Among Adolescents and Young Adults

  Marital Quality and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Effects on Sexual Activity Among Adolescents and Young Adults November 2008 Prepared for: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Prepared by: Kelleen Kaye NORC at the University of Chicago
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HHS Funding for Abstinence Education, Education

HHS Funding for Abstinence Education, Education for Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STD Prevention, and Other Programs that Address Adolescent Sexual Activity

Health and Human Services Funding for Abstinence Education, Education for Teen Pregnancy and HIV/STD Prevention, and Other Programs that Address Adolescent Sexual Activity December 16, 2008 This report is available on the Internet at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/08/AbstinenceEducation/ Transmittal Letter to Representative Mark Souder Decemb
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist to Address Those Challenges? Annotated Bibliography

July 2008 This bibliography is available on the Internet at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/08/boys/Biblio/ Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (52 pages) Project Page
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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist to Address Those Challenges? Initial Findings Brief

July 2008 This Brief is available on the Internet at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/08/boys/Findings1/brief.shtml Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format (22 pages) Additional Resources
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Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers’

Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers’ Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns

Prepared By: Robert G. Wood, Sarah Avellar, Brian Goesling Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR) Project Director:   Robert G. Wood Submitted to: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) Project Officer:   Jennifer Burnszynski Contract No.: 233-02-0086 MPR Ref
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Table 1. Percent of Adolescents

Table 1. Percent of Adolescents Engaging in Each Sexual Behavior

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NORTH CAROLINA (CONTINUED)

North Carolina (continued)

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Table 6. Placement Type Categories

Table 6. Placement Type Categories

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