This publication reports trends in teen childbearing, adolescent sexual activity, and sexually transmitted diseases in the nation, in each state, and in large cities using data from the 2002 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). Rates of teenage childbearing continue to steadily decline, and the 2002 rates are historic lows for each age…

This report is one in a series by the Food Research and Action Center celebrating the achievements of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in its 25-year history. The report documents the growth in WIC participation nationally and in each state during the program's history. Following a brief discussion…

In the 1990s, teen pregnancy and birth rates in the United States declined significantly. Researchers cite two main factors: fewer teens are having sex, and among those who are, more are using contraception. Despite these positive trends, there are still about one million pregnancies and about half a million births each year to young women aged 15…

In this research birth-order differences were studied in a sample of young children at three different ordinal positions. (Authors/CB)

The present study was designed to investigate the hypothesis that in two-sibling families the presence of an older sister is related to the younger brother's subsequent sexual behavior, sexual interests, attitudes, and problems as measured by a self-report sex questionnaire. (Authors)

Assesses the potential for birth order by age, sex, and income-interaction effects in the area of cooperative/competitive social orientation in a sample of 105 children. Results revealed birth order by sex and birth order by income-interaction effects. Implications are discussed. (Author/RH)

Compares the social structuring of birth and death and proposes a more general framework: transitions into and out of life. Discusses changes in these events fostered by modernization, exploring the role of dying and birthing individuals, the family's place, control of information, medical components, collective action, and the uses of ritual.…

Tests relationships between indicators of domestic integration, focusing on divorce and suicide with data from the United States from 1933 to 1970. For the whole period, an increase in the divorce rate was associated with an increase in the suicide rate independent of trends in unemployment and birth. (Author/HLM)

Investigates the relationship between birth order and self-esteem among 209 11- to 13-year-old girls attending a private high school in the central Philippines. The Self-Esteem Inventory was used to measure self-esteem. No evidence of any influence of birth order, family size, or their interaction with self-esteem was found. (Author/RH)

The principal finding of an analysis of two sets of data obtained from a sample of approximately 6,200 men is the absence of a negative relationship between parental intelligence test scores and number of offspring. Available from North-Holland Publishing Company, P.O. Box 211, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (Author/MLF)

A multiple regression model was used to determine the effects of socioeconomic variables in the number of intended children by Black and White families. Results indicate that socioeconomic differences account for 50 percent of the Black-White differentials in the demand for children. (Author/SK)

Adolescents feel that bearing children is the responsibility of the couple and increasing numbers are deciding not to become parents. A majority feel that legalized marriage and the nuclear family is the most important setting for rearing children. Ambivalence of changing options in life plans results in uncertainty about childbearing. (Author)