For Patterson there is a clear cycle involving poverty, early pregnancy and interrupted education.
The report, titled "Little Respite for Iraq's Children in 2007," declared that around two million Iraqi children suffered this year from a variety of humanitarian ills, including poor nutrition, disease and interrupted education.
Author: Patrick VAN DE VELDE Background: In January 2010, some 4,000 schools and countless buildings, including the Presidential Palace, the National Assembly, hospitals and the capital's airport control tower, were destroyed or badly damaged by a strong earthquake that killed 1,500 teachers and interrupted education for 2.5 million children.
The international schools have graduation rates above the city average, but do not separately track the performance of those classified as having interrupted educations.
One of the work's problems is that those hardships — interrupted educations, teenage pregnancies, domestic violence, lung diseases from millwork and (for the men in these women's lives) mining — are at this point pretty well-known facts of Appalachian life; perhaps that was less true when this play was first staged in 1979.
Interrupting his education, he enlisted and served in the United States Navy during World War II.
On his father's death in 1823, he assumed the management of family properties in Ohio, interrupting his education to become a surveyor and practical engineer.
Politics were often discussed at home and Mr. Jepsen was hooked from an early age, twice interrupting his education to manage congressional campaigns.
The Ebola crisis has kept hundreds of thousands of adolescent girls out of school in the afflicted countries, interrupting their education and rendering them more vulnerable to rape and to other forms of abuse.
