adolescent girls - well-being - poverty - welfare - TANFWe present our findings on the current well-being of 125 adolescent girls living in families receiving Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (TANF) in terms of their health, mental health, and substance abuse status, academic ...
Despite fewer and fewer people living below the poverty line here in China, Chinese authorities are still facing siginficant challenges in their goal of lifting everyone in China above poverty levels by 2020. China's home prices continue to stabilize China's property market in major cities contin...
In this study the life stories of 22 sex-workers (age 15-18 years) in Vietnam are organized into three thematic narratives depicting how the girls presented their lives. Poverty, lack of job alternatives and the responsibility to share in the support of their families led the girls into pros...
West Bengal, says that the lack of sexual awareness caused her immense anxiety in her growing years and even later. “I used to think if I kissed, I would get pregnant. When girls with little knowledge of sex move to cities, they are told that sex is only a...
Young Lives Policy Brief 13. Poverty and Gender Inequalities:Evidence from Young Lives 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 119 作者: K Pells 摘要: This report draws together data from the Young Lives survey and in-depth interviews to analyse gendered differences between boys and girls, focusing...
In South Africa, adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) are at risk of poor mental health, HIV infection and early pregnancy. Poor mental health in AGYW i
‘The girls’ are the majority of their offspring. There is reliable Dora, whose life may not be as picture-perfect as her mother believes; grumbling Mabel who is forever making unnecessary savings and complaining about her illusory poverty; Lydia who is married to a man who cannot hold her...
Sixty-four 8-year-old boys and girls from urban and rural settings and representing different races and socioeconomic status backgrounds responded to questions about the nature, causes, justification, and alleviation of poverty. Much of what the children said indicated that they had not yet internal...
As the conflict and economic crisis in South Sudan enters its fifth year, many young girls are not only bearing the burden of war but are also being discouraged from attaining financial independence due to abuse and discrimination. Mary Tabu Martin Junudio, told Xinhua in Juba that she was ...
To prepare for introduction and evaluation of the DREAMS programme in Zimbabwe, which provides biomedical and social interventions to reduce adolescent girls' and young women's HIV vulnerability, we conducted a rapid needs assessment in 6 towns using a "social mapping" approach. In each site, we...