The process of the intervention began with a total of one hundred and fourteen 11th graders, twenty-four of which were male and ninety of which were female, with an average age of sixteen. The students were divided into two groups; fifty-three students were placed in the intervention group and sixty-one students were placed in the control group. The students in the intervention group were assigned different dates, a minimum of two to three days and nights, to care for the simulated infant and given specific verbal and written instructions pertaining to the care of the “baby”. The six infant simulators used for the study were developed by Rick Jurmaine, an aeronautics engineer. To make the infant simulators more realistic he made them weigh
