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Online “Predators” and Their Victims: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Prevention and Treatment
University of New Hampshire The media-created perception that sex offenders use trickery and physical force to molest children they meet online is...
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The Quality of Teen Relationships Influences Decisions about Contraception
Child Trends For youth, having fewer sexual relationships correlates with more frequent use of contraception, find researchers who surveyed 4,556 unmarried, sexually...
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Risk Factors for Death Among Older Child and Teenaged Motor Vehicle Passengers
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine More 8- to 17-year-olds die in automobile accidents than from any other cause, and more die...
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Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Parents and Their Children in Our Nation’s K-12 Schools
Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network Click to see a larger chart. There are more than 7 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...
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Advancing Achievement: Findings from an Independent Evaluation of a Major After-School Initiative
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV) Several publications spun off from P/PV’s recent evaluation of Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) – an eight-year,...
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Federal Tax Benefits: Foster, Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers
National Foster Parent Association (NFPA) According to the NFPA, “neither the Internal Revenue Service nor commercial tax manuals offer information on unique...
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A National Service Agenda for the Next Decade
Center for American Progress This report, produced to shore up support for service programs, says they are effectively addressing a new array...
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America’s Youth at 20: School Enrollment, Training, and Employment Transitions Between Ages 19 and 20
U.S. Department of Labor Twenty-year-old females are 20 percent more likely to be enrolled in college than are their male counterparts, says...
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The Collapse of the National Teen Job Market and the Case for an Immediate Youth Jobs Creation Program
Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University Employment rates for 16- to 19-year-olds have been declining or stagnant since 1989, and the...
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Youthful Offender Project
YouthBuild USA This report on YouthBuild’s Youthful Offender Project stresses the need for re-entry programs to prevent recidivism. Part of the U.S....
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Ten Key Findings from Responsible Fatherhood Initiatives
The Urban Institute This report examines the results of five programs initiated from the 1990s through 2000 to help low-income noncustodial fathers...
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Survey Finds Most College Freshmen Satisfied with Close Parental Involvement
Cooperative Institutional Research Program/UCLA The majority of college freshmen answering this survey reported that they had experienced the “right amount” of parental...
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Ethical Approaches to Adolescent Participation in Sexual Health Research
Journal of Adolescent Health Adolescent sexual health research studies educate youth and encourage them to practice safe sex. However, young people’s participation...
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Unnecessary Roughness? School Sports, Peer Networks and Male Adolescent Violence
American Sociological Review High school males in contact sports such as football and wrestling are at heightened risk of participating in serious...
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Black Victims of Violent Crime
Bureau of Justice Statistics Among the findings reported here, based on data gathered by the National Crime Victimization Survey and the FBI’s...
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State of the World’s Children 2008
UNICEF Each day about 26,000 children under age 5, most of whom live in developing regions, die from preventable causes. UNICEF is...
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Engaging Youth … On Their Turf: Creative Approaches to Connecting Youth through Community
Healthy Teen Network This report focuses on the importance of involving at-risk youth in positive activities in order to combat teen pregnancy,...
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State Children’s Cabinets and Councils: Getting Results for Children and Youth
The Forum for Youth Investment State children’s cabinets are typically made up of the heads of government agencies serving a state’s youngest...
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Outcomes Linked to High-Quality Afterschool Programs: Longitudinal Findings from the Study of Promising Afterschool Programs
Policy Studies Associates (PSA), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California, Irvine This two-year study of elementary and middle school...
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Numbers and Rates of Public High School Dropouts: School Year 2004–05
National Center for Education Statistics The high school dropout rate was 3.9 percent for the 2004-2005 school year – similar to the...
