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Yunzal-Butler, Cristina; Sackoff, Judith; Korenman, Sanders – Journal of School Health, 2020
Background: School-based pregnancy prevention programs should optimally be offered while students are still engaged in school since early disengagement is strongly associated with risk of a teen birth. Methods: We used linked New York City birth and enrollment data (2005-2013), a sample of 6,809 teen mothers (mean age conception = 16.2 years). We…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Prevention, Correlation, Risk
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Hughes, Carolyn; Manns, Nicole N.; Ford, Donna Y. – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2009
Racial identity attitudes, a construct proposed as a measure of the world view of Blacks (Cross & Vandiver, 2001), and academic performance of a group of Black females attending a high-poverty, failing high school with a 42% graduation rate were examined. These young women were either pregnant or parenting and attended a parenting support group at…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, World Views, Graduation Rate, Academic Achievement