This report evaluates the third year of the Appalachian Adolescent Health Education Project (AAHEP), a program designed to reduce adolescent pregnancy rates and provide care for pregnant teenagers in East Tennessee. The report notes that the project's scope changed from a 15-county region to a concentration of efforts in 3 target counties for the…

The nature of maternity services has changed in the past 20 years, with a movement away from traditional (physician delivery in a hospital) towards other alternative services. This study examined alternative maternity services in Washington State, which ranks eighth in the country in the use of such services. Data were collected from birth and…

Survey results indicate that, if effective sex control technologies were rapidly and widely adopted in the United States, the current sex preferences of married women would be for male children for the first couple of years of such control. Whatever characteristics associated with being firstborn would therefore be concentrated among males. (PEB)

This paper reports on a 3-month longitudinal study comparing the crying behavior of a group of babies delivered by the "nonviolent" Leboyer method with a control group delivered by traditional methods. Subjects were 24 white, middle class infants delivered by minimally medicated, multiparous and primiparous mothers. Fourteen newborns…

Although the birth rate among every maternal age group in the United States is declining, among teenagers the decline is evident only for older adolescents, regardless of marital status. Younger adolescents are delivering more, not fewer, babies. This article reviews studies relating to this phenomenon. (Author)

Examined childbearing and marital stability among women (N=825) still childless at remarriage. Found that, among White women two-thirds have a first child in the new marriage. Among Black women, only one-third begin childbearing in remarriage. Marital disruption may delay the beginning of childbearing or contribute to a childless lifestyle. (JAC)

Firstborn high school students expressed greater preference for reading for information than did middle- or last-born students. No other birth-order effects were found. (ST)

Questions the common assumption that premarital pregnancy is specially motivated. Contends that it is usually the unanticipated outcome of sexual activity. Results of research on sample of 337 unmarried black teenagers indicates that experience with birth control was strongly related to the way sex was viewed by their mothers. (RJ)

Firstborn children were found to be both more fearful and more sensitive to pain in a dental situation than later born children. (MH)

Concludes that the effect of a woman's education on her age at the time of the birth of her first child is statistically significant. Age at first birth, however, has an insignificant effect on educational attainment. Once childbearing has begun, education has essentially no direct effect on fertility. (Author/GC)

Results showed that concentrations of testosterone were significantly greater in the umbilical blood of newborn males than females. In both sexes, firstborns had significantly more progesterone and estrogens than later borns, and among males, firstborns had higher concentrations of testosterone. Temporal spacing of childbirths had greater effects…

Used June 1985 Current Population Survey data to provide detailed analysis of childbearing after second marriage among women who remarried during reproductive years. For both Whites and Blacks, approximately one-half of women gave birth in second marriage; most births occurred within 24 months of remarriage. Among Whites, childbearing…

(Purpose) The present study sought to enhance the understanding of 1148 Thai and Muslims college students' resilience during the time of insurgent terrorism in the southernmost province of Thailand, Pattani. (Methodology) Resilience scale based on Grotberg three features of "I HAVE," "I AM" and "I CAN" was developed…

The present study investigated the referential communication skills of children with imaginary companions (ICs). Twenty-two children with ICs aged between 4 and 6 years were compared to 22 children without ICs (NICs). The children were matched for age, gender, birth order, number of siblings, and parental education. All children completed the Test…