They're only 9 years old, but these girls and boys from around the world offer keen insight into how gender shapes destiny.
viii A recent study found that 31.5% of preterm births are likely to be the result of a woman having an abortion earlier in her life.ix PTB is the leading cause of infant death both globally and in the United States.x Worldwide PTB causes over 3 million deaths every year.xi Another ...
Fears of worldwide overpopulation are based on several factors: We won't be able to produce enough food to feed everyone. There isn't enough space for everyone to live. Humans cause harm to the environment. Too many humans will virtually destroy the ecosystem, further reducing our ability to...
Worldwide, about 2 percent of all women of reproductive age will have an abortion each year [source: Grimes, Creinin]. (These numbers don't include the number of women who suffer spontaneous abortions, the medical term for miscarriages.) The Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit organization that...
international family-planning programs provides birth control to more than 30 million people around the world. These services and supplies help to avert 9.4 million unintended pregnancies and 4 million abortions—the majority of which are unsafe—and prevent the deaths of 22,000 women each year. ...
In addition, many of these fields are developing so rapidly that governance frameworks and regulation must deal with a constantly moving target. CONNECTIVITY We are more connected than ever before. Two thirds of the people in the world today own mobile devices, with almost half owning smartphones...
The one child policy limits every family to having one child only, to reduce population growth. There are endless reasons on why the one child policy is a very negative law. Gender inequalities, forced abortions, and not enough young people to take care of the elderly are just some of the...
“It was not specific at all in terms of the mission,” she says. Raniere wanted to create a worldwide network of female “slaves” and “masters,” using NXIVM’s marketing tools and high-profile members like Mack to cultivate women of influence, such as Emma Watson, Beverley Mitchell, ...
prevention behavior. Health organizations worldwide recommend telephone and online sex as alternatives to in-person sex dates. The International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH,2020) postulates the following: “The new ‘really safe’ sex in many cases may require ‘e-...
During a worldwide pandemic — with hundreds of thousands of Americans dead and millions more saddled with lifelong chronic health conditions — the president has prioritized ramming through an ultraconservative, anti-health care Supreme Court justice who will, at the first chance, take away health ...