... from California and Georgia. The girls were Latina (49%), White (23%), African American (9 %), Asian ... more sexism than their peers. Moreover, Latina and Asian American girls reported less sexual harassment ...
... group. Non-Hispanic black and Mexican American girls were more likely to have a high BMI for age than non-Hispanic white girls. Among boys, Mexican Americans were significantly more likely to have high ...
Researchers found that black girls who used marijuana had significantly higher rates of incident STDs than non-marijuana ...
... health issues for African-American court-involved youth. Both girls and boys showed ... . Such a relationship was not found in White families. In addition, African-American girls report more externalizing, "acting out" behaviors ...
... children. More specifically, Caucasian American girls and African American boys and girls viewed morality ... . In contrast, the morality of Caucasian American boys, and to a lesser extent girls, was more rule-based in the virtual ...
... affects adolescent females, who make up more than 40 percent of all cases. As much as 3 percent of American girls and women are anorexic. Contributing causes ...
... was not full at all. Forty yards down the beach an American hippy couple had a small transistor radio ... . The astronauts stayed in the Eagle for hours, it seemed. The American girl fell asleep and her boyfriend ...
... but did not encourage their daughters, Anderson said. African-American girls, but not boys, placed less value ... , like riding their bikes, and both African-American girls and boys watched more TV. More educated ...
... were less likely to use condoms. Underweight African-American girls also were less likely to use condoms while overweight African-American girls reported four or more sexual partners. Latina girls of all weights ...
... symptoms. Research has long shown that African-American girls have higher self-esteem compared ... symptoms. Mandara suggested that could be because African American girls often are charged with adult family ...
... they will apply for, tending to choose non-African-American girls, and favoring babies who are close to being born ... costs for a girl as opposed to a boy, says Yariv—and $38,000 more for a non-African-American baby ...
... levels of angiotensin II. Researchers also observed that African American girls had less ACE2 than Caucasian ... that contributes to high blood pressure and African American girls have less of the enzyme that makes the hormone ...
... to 8- to 10-year-old African-American girls, can help these young viewers make ... in a preliminary study, reported several years ago, with 78 Internet-savvy African American girls age 8 to 10. Now ...
... decade after researchers found that some American girls were beginning puberty as young as 7, new data show ... were stunned when research published more than a decade ago found American girls were beginning puberty at much younger ...
... and earlier. One recent study found that more than 10 percent of American girls have some breast development by age 7 ... may also have some effect. Also, there's been a trend over the last 150 years of girls maturing earlier, possibly because of improved ...
