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    life. The study statistics showed that pregnancy rates were maximum among teens who came from families with single-parents since they probably had experienced poverty. In line with the first study is a study by Williams, Forbes, McIlwaine & Rosenberg (1987) which proposed that statistically, teen mothers lead a life of poverty. Since they have a low degree of education, they get few opportunities regarding jobs, unlike other non-parenting teenagers. The study offers information on the safety of nimodipine

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    schools in New York have been preventing this tragic scene from happening by distributing out birth control, which includes the morning after pill, and condoms and ever since then teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases have dropped very low. “Elizabeth Finley, director of strategic communications for the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina, credits more effective birth control methods and wider access to them” (Ball 1) Although this methods have shown to be very

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    The order in which a person is born into their family plays substantial role in the individual’s development of personality. Birth order is believed to influence many aspects of one’s personality. The familial atmosphere is the first group experience a child has and the child’s role in their family influences the development of the child’s individual personality traits. In families, children learn what is valuable and meaningful to their parents and siblings and they compete with their siblings for

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    The Controversy Surrounding Oral Contraception

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    pill had risen tremendously and by the late 1960s over 15% of married British women were using the pill. Its rapid popularity was not restricted to the United Kingdom as at the same time 2% of the female population worldwide relied on the pill as birth control. These figures continued to rise, and after the 1970s the pill in Britain became a dominant method of contraception (Marks, V, L,

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    Whaley & Wong’s Nursing Care of Infants and Children as "any infant born before completion of 37 weeks of gestation, regardless of birth weight." (Wong, p. 1999, p.392) Many premature infants are also considered high risk neonates because the major activities of life, including thermoregulation, respiration and digestion, cannot fully function at their time of birth. This poses a problem for both the health professionals and the parents of the infant. The health professionals must closely monitor

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    may grow up without proper care, love or encouragement to learn and succeed. A few of the things that can interfere with the child with an alcoholic parent includes school life, social interactions and at home. A child who is forced to grow up from birth around alcoholism has a higher chance of becoming an alcoholic themselves. Starting from the pregnancy of an alcoholic mother, her poor diet, and constant alcohol intake and possible cigarette smoking could lead to a deficiency and health complications

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    Desire can be used as a tool to set goals and motivate people to accomplish objectives over their lifetime. People may desire various elements of a good life including success, happiness, or easy wealth. Desire takes many forms in Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears, where three female characters starts a new life in a new era, where they believe that desire is rewarded. The film begins in the Thaw period Moscow, with three protagonists who are part of the urbanization movement of Soviet people that

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    Care and Preterm Births In the last 20 years the hopes of survival for neonates have seen significant increase, almost all of the causes of perinatal mortality and morbidity have decreased. There is only one threat unmoved, still standing above the rest- Preterm birth. Prematurity or preterm birth is defined as the birth of any child between 20-37 weeks of gestation. Delivery prior to 20 weeks of gestation is considered a Natural abortion.1 The survival rate of low birth weight infants

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    Teen pregnancy is a major problem in the United States. There are significantly more teenage pregnancies in the United States than all other developing countries (Cleo & Moore, 1995). According to The Complete and Authoritative Guide: Caring for Your Teenager, out of every five women under twenty, two will become pregnant. Teen pregnancy rates have increased 23% from 1972 to 1990 (Napier, 1997) In order to come to a solution it is important to examine why teenage pregnancy is so high in the United

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    gestational age. These babies can vary in term of prematurity, from two to three weeks, to extremely preterm at over ten weeks. Goldberg and Devitto (2002, as cited in Leman, Bremner, Parke & Gauvain, 2012) stated prematurity is associated with low birth weight, putting infants at risk of long term issues such as faulty cognition, hyperactivity and perceptual disorders. Werner and Smith (1982, as cited in Leman et al., 2012) stated recent developments indicate high-quality care and extra stimulation

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