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Acknowledgements

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting. Acknowledgements

This report, which presents implementation lessons learned from visits to several maternity group home programs, has benefited from the efforts and contributions of many people.  Appreciation goes first of all to efforts of people in the sites who are working hard to implement maternity group home programs.  Many of these individuals also played
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The Implementation of Maternity Group Home

The Implementation of Maternity Group Home Programs: Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens in a Residential Setting

Prepared by: Lara K. Hulsey, Robert G. Wood, and Anu Rangarajan Mathematica Policy Research April 22, 2005 ASPE Project Officer: Brenda Benesch Contract No: 233-02-0086
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Conclusion

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist To Address Those Challenges? Fact Sheet: Substance Abuse*. Conclusion

Given the serious consequences of substance abuse among young people, researchers have made considerable efforts to understand what factors make young people more or less likely to use drugs and alcohol.
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What Factors Increase or Decrease the Risk of

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist To Address Those Challenges? Fact Sheet: Substance Abuse*. What Factors Increase or Decrease the Risk of Substance Abuse?

While the proportion of boys using alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs has risen and fallen over time, researchers have learned valuable lessons about risk factors — those traits and life experiences that can jeopardize a person’s healthy development — and protective factors — the characteristics and life experiences that can increase a p
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Some Facts about Boys and Substance Abuse

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist To Address Those Challenges? Fact Sheet: Substance Abuse*. Some Facts about Boys and Substance Abuse

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What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What

What Challenges Are Boys Facing, and What Opportunities Exist To Address Those Challenges? Fact Sheet: Substance Abuse*

David was looking forward to some Friday night fun.   A starter on his high school basketball team, he had practiced hard every evening that week for the big game against a crosstown rival and still had to make time to study for his first period geometry test.  After dinner with his family, he headed over to a party at the house of a schoolmate
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Best Intentions are Not Enough: Techniques for

Best Intentions are Not Enough: Techniques for Using Research and Data to Develop New Evidence-Informed Prevention Programs

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Endnotes

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Endnotes

9 Although the federal government’s jurisdiction is limited, the United States Code does include statutory rape laws. See 18 U.S.C.A. § 2241 and § 2243.
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State Response

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. State Response

Each state summary highlights the required response of the state and local agencies that receive reports of suspected child abuse. State statutes vary in the level of detail they provide. Generally they include requirements addressing which entities, if any, the agency receiving the initial report must notify, the timeframe for this notification,
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Who to Report to

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Who to Report to

To varying degrees of specificity, all state statutes provide mandated reporters with instructions for the reporting process. 34 States generally require that mandated reporters notify the appropriate authorities within one to three days of encountering a case of suspected abuse. Mandated reporters can usually make an initial report orally, via t
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Mandatory Reporters

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Mandatory Reporters

Each state’s reporting requirements identify certain individuals who are required to notify the authorities of suspected abuse. Although it varies by state, mandated reporters are typically individuals who encounter children through their professional capacity . In Pennsylvania, the statute requires all individuals who encounter a case of abu
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Inclusion of Statutory Rape in Reporting

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Inclusion of Statutory Rape in Reporting Requirements

State statutes vary in the extent to which statutory rape is included in the reporting requirements. In approximately one-third of the states, mandated reporting is limited to those situations where the abuse was perpetrated or allowed by a person responsible for the care of the child. 26 Consider the example of Virginia. Child abuse, a reportabl
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Child Abuse Reporting Requirements

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Child Abuse Reporting Requirements

Statutory rape reporting requirements are generally found in the sections of states’ codes that deal with juveniles, children and families, domestic relationships, or social services, whereas the criminal or penal codes address the legality of specific offenses. This section of the report summarizes states’ child abuse reporting requirements a
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Definition of Offenses

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Definition of Offenses

States’ laws addressing sexual activity involving minors are usually included in the section of the criminal code devoted to sexual offenses. Each state summary ( Section III ) includes a table detailing all of the offenses in the statute that deal with statutory rape.
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Sexual Intercourse with Minors

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Sexual Intercourse with Minors

States’ statutory rape offenses detail the age at which an individual can legally consent to sexual activity. This section focuses on laws addressing sexual intercourse . 10 Table 1 summarizes, where applicable, each state’s:
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Statutory Rape — Criminal Offenses

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements. Statutory Rape — Criminal Offenses

As noted above, few states use the term statutory rape in their codes. Instead, criminal codes specify the legality of specific sexual acts. The applicable laws are often embedded in the section of the code dealing with other sexual offenses (e.g., sexual assault, forcible rape).
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Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and

Statutory Rape: A Guide to State Laws and Reporting Requirements

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References

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

Abma, J.C., G.M. Martinez, W.D. Mosher, and B.S. Dawson. "Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002." National Center for Health Statistics. Vital and Health Statistics , series 23, no. 24, December 2004. Amato, Paul R. "Children of Divorce in the 1990s: An Update of the Amato and Keith (1991) Me
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Directions for Future Research

Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers’ Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns. Directions for Future Research

We end this report with a few thoughts on promising directions for future research. As reported in Chapter II , our analysis of MTF data indicates that the likelihood of dating among high school students has declined substantially in recent years. As noted in that chapter, it is possible that this decline represents a change in adolescent vocabul
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Overview of Main Results

Pathways to Adulthood and Marriage: Teenagers’ Attitudes, Expectations, and Relationship Patterns. Overview of Main Results

Teens live in a mix of family structures, but most live with married parents — 50 percent with both biological parents and 13 percent with a parent who has remarried. The likelihood of living with two married biological parents varies substantially across various subgroups of teens, with African-American and low-income teens particularly unlike

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