Family+Youth+and+Aged+Research+Resource

[|**Repeat Pregnancies Among Teenagers On The Increase**]

An expert in health services is calling for urgent action to improve contraceptive advice and services to reduce the growing number of repeat teenage pregnancies in the United ... [|**Children Who View Adult-targeted TV May Become Sexually Active Earlier In Life**]

Children who view adult-targeted TV and movies may become sexually active earlier in life. New research found that for every hour the youngest group of children watched adult-targeted content over ...

[|**Middle School Youth As Young As 12 Engaging In Risky Sexual Activity**]

Middle school youth are engaging in sexual intercourse as early as age 12, according to a new study. Researchers examined sexual risk behaviors among middle school students in a large southeastern US ...

__**Care homes: I don't want to suffer like my husband**__

In the second of our three-part series on the state of Britain's nursing homes, reader Anna Young shares extracts from her journal and offers a moving account of her husband's life in a care home

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__**Generation Next**__

As part of the BBC's Generation Next season, the BBC's Robin Lustig asks what does it really mean to be an adult. He explores what "youth" means in different societies and cultures worldwide in this five-part documentary series called '[|Generation Next]'.

__**Call Me Nana**__

This programme, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, tells the story of some of the growing number of Canadian grandmothers raising their grandchildren without the parents present. [|Link]

__Artcile 377a Debate__

Recently, we had a raging debate in the parliament and various web forums discussing whether we should make homosexuality a crime or not. To read some of the interesting viewpoints which may give you some insight into the different local perspectives, follow the links.

[|http://www.keep377a.com]

[|http://www.repeal377a.com]

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[|http://www.straitstimes.com/STI/STIMEDIA/pdf/20071023/Siew%20Kum%20Hong.pdf]

**__Domestic Violence__**

The family home should be a place of warmth and security, but for millions it has turned into a frightening and traumatic place. Around the world, violence is directed against women and children by their closest family members. Find out more in this BBC documentary series called '[|Violence Begins at Home'].

**__Coming Out__**

Homosexuality is one of the world's biggest taboos.It has led to riots in Russia, huge splits in the Anglican Church, and was a large factor in the re-election of President Bush. Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe famously proclaimed that homosexuals were "worse than pigs and dogs." Now in the first of two programmes, Clare English explores what it is like to be gay and asks why some societies are more tolerant than others. []

__ **Aging Issues in America** __

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__ ** Imagine the Future of Aging ** __

A nice short video about aging and the role technology can play to help. []