An article highlighting a study on the associations between verbal and minor physical abuse by an intimate partner and reproductive health behavior of young women.
The former gangbangers at Homeboy Industries were not quite sure what to expect Wednesday when First Lady Laura Bush paid them a call at their silk-screening business ...
The recent spate of disturbances on high school campuses across Southern California is just that ? disturbing. What are all these teenagers fighting about? Why are ...
In its 17th annual national study of teen drug abuse, the Partnership for a Drug-Free America? today reports that an alarming number of teenagers are abusing a ...
Child-maltreatment rates in the United States remained stable in 2003, with a little more than 900,000 substantiated cases of child abuse or neglect, federal data show.
Heather Opel was 13 and felt cooped up inside the Snohomish County juvenile-detention center. When told that Echo Glen Children's Center has a big outdoor exercise ...
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Purpose
The current study examined the association between formal and non-formal virginity pledges and the initiation of genital play, oral sex, and vaginal ...
It's the kind of spat that flares thousands of times a day in schools all over the country.
But at Public School 34 in Queens Village, Assistant Principal Nancy ...
Like most of her classmates at Washington High School in Milwaukee, Wis., La Shanda Trimble, 18, is attentive to fashion trends; it's the particular trend she chooses ...
There were warning signs in the months before 11-year-old Arthur Lee Wiley became deathly ill.
The severely disabled boy was kept in bed so long he moaned in pain. He ...
INFERNAL CONDITIONS and hair-raising abuses at Maryland's juvenile detention facilities are nothing new. As a candidate for governor in 2002, then-Rep. Robert L. ...
The chief executive of cigarette maker Philip Morris USA told a federal judge Thursday that the company had changed in recent years and was now open with the public ...
For Elisa Hernandez, no meant no -- and a tragic death at age 15.
When a frustrated suitor named Alfred Bishop asked her for a kiss, she refused him. Again and again, ...
The number of poor readers in the nation?s schools is staggering: According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 8.7 million fourth- through ...
Background Homicide is the second leading cause of death in children aged 0 to 19 years. Tailoring violence prevention programs to high-risk individuals requires ...
For the past several years, Dr. David Fassler has enjoyed putting his plastic brain through x-ray machines at airports.
At an airport in Wyoming, he recalls, a ...
In the preface to his new book, "Private Guns, Public Health," David Hemenway of the Harvard School of Public Health tells a story about the goose problem that had ...
In light of the tragic school shooting at Red Lake High School on March 21, 2005, news that teen violence has declined in recent years provides little comfort.
March 31, 2005 -- Nearly 30% of American high school students are still using tobacco, worrying health officials and advocates that previous gains against youth ...
Have we learned nothing since Columbine?
It has been six years since the mass murders in Littleton, Colo. It has been one week since the school shooting in Red Lake, ...
