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Based on in-person interviews with 1,381 girls and 1,386 boys ages 15 to 19 in 2006-2008, more than four in 10 never-married teens in the USA have had intercourse at least once, Abma and her co-authors estimate.
Growing Acceptance Among Teens To Out of Wedlock Pregnancy | Impact Lab 2010
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But disquietingly, the report notes that 10 percent of teen girls described the first time they had sex as "nonvoluntary." — "Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002," J.C. Abma, G.M. Martinez, W.
Primary Sources 2005
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But disquietingly, the report notes that 10 percent of teen girls described the first time they had sex as "nonvoluntary." — "Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002," J.C. Abma, G.M. Martinez, W.
Primary Sources 2005
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The evaluator's role is thus one of interpreter, educator and facilitator, being an enabling partner and collaborator rather than an expert (Abma, 35).
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It also implies investing time in developing trust and safety, to ensure quality dialogues and relationships (Abma, 32).
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Evaluators are interested in experiences and perceptions, particularly as constructed in stories that "reveal the meaning and ambiguity of everyday situations and experiences, and … illuminate what really matters to stakeholders" (Abma, 33).
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From a dialogical perspective where stakeholders engage in dialogical processes and influence each other, a programme is not a means to an end but, rather, "a practice that has different, sometimes conflicting, meanings for various participants" (Abma, 33).
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Curtin, and Joyce C. Abma, “Trends in Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1976-97: An Update,” National Vital Statistics Reports 49, no.
OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005
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From 1995 to 2002, “it was pretty much across-the-board improvements in those risk factors,” says lead author Joyce Abma, a statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
Growing Acceptance Among Teens To Out of Wedlock Pregnancy | Impact Lab 2010
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Ashin Issariya - one of the founders of the Alliance of All Burmese Monks (Abma) - reports: "The generals have not ceased to insult and punish monks and the Buddhist religion.
Spero News 2009
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