Our interest in understanding the determinants of adolescent childbearing and how adolescent childbearing influences educational trajectories derive from a concern about the inverse relationship between educational outcomes and adolescent fertility.
The authors analyze the determinants of adolescent motherhood and its subsequent effect on high school attendance and completion in Chile.
Young people today are exposed to a wide range of information related to sex and sexuality, most of which is misleading and incorrect.
Young people today are exposed to a wide range of information related to sex and sexuality, most of which is misleading and incorrect.
Young people today are exposed to a wide range of information related to sex and sexuality, most of which is misleading and incorrect.
Young people today are exposed to a wide range of information related to sex and sexuality, most of which is misleading and incorrect.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Office of the Pacific States commissioned an attitudinal survey on the delivery of Sexual and Reproductive Health (including HIV) education in schools in four Pacific Island Countries: Nauru, Niue, Palau and Samoa.
Children and youth affected by HIV/AIDS face many stressors and competing priorities regarding family, health, education, protection and economic stability.
This paper examines how policies and strategies to address school-related gender-based violence have evolved since 2000, when gender-based violence within education was largely invisible.
CONTEXT: Contraceptive knowledge and use at first sex have increased over time among Jamaican adolescents, yet high unintended pregnancy rates persist. More information on risk factors for adolescent pregnancy is needed to inform programs.