The Californian Association of Marriage and Family Therapists has put together a list of six things parents can do to help with the burden of peer pressure: Talk about drinking, drugs, and other harmful behaviour, maintaining open communication and understanding your children’s opinions. Talk about your children’s concerns and pressures. […]
Daily Archives: Friday 13th July, 2007
Concerns have been raised by the Family and Youth Concern organisation that giving out the “morning after pill” to under 16s can encourage them to have sex. “It inevitably results in young men putting pressure on vulnerable girls to have sex by telling them that if they are worried about […]
“Morning after pill” could encourage teen sex
New data released by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics suggests that, in 2005, births to unmarried mothers accounted for over one-third of the total births in the United States, at 37%. However, pregnancy amongst teenagers fell, thanks to reduced sexual activity, or the increased use of […]
Over one-third of US births to unmarried mothers, survey suggests
A small study from researchers at Iowa University has concluded that many women rule the marriage relationship and the home, due in part to changing times and roles of the sexes. The survey of 72 married couples shows that the man does not always hold the power, particularly where children […]