Linda S. Potential for catch-up growth among stunted children is thought to be limited after age 2 y, particularly when they remain in poor environments. The mean increase in HAZ among those with such improvements was 1. The likelihood that children stunted at age 2 y would no longer be stunted at 8. Low birth weight, which was associated with more severe stunting in the first 2 y of life, significantly reduced likelihood of catch-up growth in later childhood. Similar factors predicted the improvement in linear growth from 8. These results suggest that there is a large potential for catch-up growth in children into the preadolescent years. Linear-growth retardation is a continuing health problem among children living in poverty in developing countries.

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PIP: Very little is known about Filipino adolescents. Professional opinion varies enormously as to what is to be considered normal and abnormal. What brings on puberty is a controversial topic. Nutrition and genetic inheritance have been found to affect the age at which menstruation begins. Environment plays a large role in emotional and social growth. Filipino sex education is rather haphazard. A study of over adolescents in showed that sexual information was gained principally from pornographic literature, movies, television and friends. Boys also watched strip-tease acts and went to houses of prostitution. Boys fell in love more often and less seriously than did girls.
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Despite increasing sexual liberalization, virginity and its loss persist as contested and highly gendered concepts in many parts of Asia. According to theories in feminism and sexuality studies, virginity may be socially constructed as either a gift, a stigma, an act of worship, or a process. We synthesize findings from quantitative sources and original qualitative data from focus groups and interviews with Filipino women and men. Filipina women expressed disapproval of sex for unmarried women, but less for unmarried men, and placed less importance on male virginity.
In Manila in the map 2 , according to a research report of one section of SCAP, there were 12 houses of relaxation comfort stations and 5 brothels for privates and non-commissioned officers. War prisoners testified that there were 5 or 6 comfort stations where Korean, Filipino and Chinese women worked. On the island of North Luzon comfort stations existed at Bayonbong 1.