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Time With Parents Key for Adolescents
(2015) The more time mothers spent engaged in activities with their adolescent children (ages 12 to 18), the less teens were involved in delinquent behavior, such as skipping school, shoplifting, staying out at night without permission, and getting in trouble at school or with the law, according to a study in the most recent issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family (see Figure 1).1
Improving Safe Childbirth in India
(2013) Despite more funding for health services during the past decade (per capita health spending rose from US$21 in 2000 to US$45 in 2009), India is unlikely to reach the targets for the health-related 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDG).1
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Population Growth Concentrated Among the Poorest Communities
As sub-Saharan African countries strive to grow their economies, it is critical that they consider their age structures—or more particularly, the age structures of their richest and poorest populations, which are determined largely by fertility rates.
World Population Aging: Clocks Illustrate Growth in Population Under Age 5 and Over Age 65
(2011) The world's population is growing—and aging. Very low birth rates in developed countries, coupled with birth rate declines in most developing countries, are projected to increase the population ages 65 and over to the point in 2050 when it will be 2.5 times that of the population ages 0-4. This is an exact reversal of the situation in 1950.
China Abandons One-Child Policy
(2015) China has abandoned its one-child policy, according to news reports. So what would be the demographic implications of this two-child policy?
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Myths, Misconceptions Still Discourage Use of Family Planning
Twenty-five years since the landmark International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, most countries have made great strides in increasing access to and voluntary use of family planning.
Evidence to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
PRB was a partner on Evidence to End FGM/C: Research to Help Girls and Women Thrive, a UKAID-funded research program to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) within one generation.