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• Poorer education tied to preterm birth risk
NEW YORK - Pregnant women with low levels of education are nearly twice as likely as their more educated peers to give birth prematurely, researchers from the Netherlands report. However, most of the risk can be attributed to the disadvantages that ...
• Mississippi now has highest teen birth rate
Blaming abstinence-only education Some experts have blamed the national increase on increased federal funding for abstinence-only health education that does not teach teens how to use condoms and other contraception. They said that would explain why ...
• Poorer kids often depressed as teenagers
... were more likely to "grow up" faster — including having sex, leaving home or getting married at an earlier-than-average age. This cycle, the study found, eventually put kids at risk of substantial obstacles in young adulthood, such as low education ...
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• Thousands Raised for NorCal Shackled Teen
Another offer came in to help him fund a college education. "We've had offers of clothing, education, money, people wanting to start funds ... people have offered him homes, offered him to come live with them," Golphin said. Students in the leadership ...