Intimate partner violence and urban female adolescents
2009 study in Maternal and Child Health Journal on high rates of domestic violence against urban female teens.
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Opiate use by U.S. mothers and increases in neonatal abstinence syndrome
2012 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the tripling of rates of babies affected by maternal opiate use over the past decade.
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More than 7 million children live with a parent with alcohol problems
2012 report from the U.S. government’s Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality spotlighting data relating to children of alcoholics in the United States.
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Early 2000s: A period of declining teen summer employment rates
2010 study by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published in Monthly Labor Review on teen summer-employment trends.
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Prenatal exposure to pesticides linked to gestational age and birthweight
2012 study in Environmental Health Perspectives on the relationship between maternal prenatal insecticide exposure and a child’s gestational age and birthweight.
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Neighborhood food environment and diet among California youth
2012 study from the RAND Corporation in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine on youth obesity and access to healthy food sources.
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Pew Research: Gender reversal on career aspirations
2012 metastudy by Pew Research Center synthesized the results of several surveys on employment statistics and attitudes toward work and quality of life
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Why is the teen birth rate in the U.S. so high and why does it matter?
2012 paper from the University of Maryland and Wellesley College on underlying factors that explain America’s relatively higher rates of teen childbearing.
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Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders: CDC 2012 report
2012 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the increasing rate of autism diagnoses across the Unites States.
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Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army: U.S. response
2012 report by the Congressional Research Service on the current status of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) in central Africa and U.S. deployment to that region.
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