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What the kids are reading
Meet the new classics. Along with The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre and To Kill a Mockingbird , newer books are popping up on high-school curricula and summer reading lists -- and they aren't exactly your grandmother's traditional picks. At Cypress Bay High School in Weston, soon-to-be 12th-graders taking rigorous Advanced Placement English may tackle Memoirs of a Geisha and The Bonesetter's Daughter over the...read more...// //What the doc is telling your teen
NEW YORK -- If you're the parent of a 'tween or teen, chances are you've been asked to leave the room during your child's visit to the doctor so they can have a private chat. Now of course I believe that teenagers should have a trusting relationship with their doctors. But while I'm sitting there alone in the waiting room, watching the younger mommies bounce babies on their knees, I can't help...read more...// //Bristol Palin on teen sex: Wait
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter, an unwed mother, says teenagers should avoid having sex. However, Bristol Palin acknowledges that abstinence is "not realistic at all.'' She commented during a two-part interview recorded for Fox News Channel. Just days after the governor was named John McCain's running mate on the Republican presidential...read more...// //Study links TV to teen pregnancy
BY LINDSEY TANNER, Associated Press CHICAGO -- Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behavior compared with those who have tamer viewing tastes. Sex and the City, anyone? That was one of the shows used in the research. The new study is the first to link those viewing habits with teen pregnancy,...read more...// //New Fords will let parents set speed limit
By TOM KRISHER, AP AUTO WRITER So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the family car? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the power to do something about it. The company will roll out a new feature on many 2010 models that can limit teen drivers to 80 mph, using a computer chip in the key. Parents also have the option of programming the teen's key to limit the audio system's volume,...read more...// //When your baby's having a baby
If your daughter is pregnant and planning to have the baby, many changes await your family. And though it's certainly not what most parents expect, it happens every day: Nearly 1 million teenage girls in the United States give birth every year. If your teen is about to become a mother (or your son has fathered a child), it can be overwhelming for all of you. How can you support...read more...// //Teens aren't shocked over pregnancy
BY JAWEED KALEEM, jkaleem@MiamiHerald.com They've seen Juno, the box office hit about a pregnant teen. They've heard Jamie Lynn Spears, sister of Britney, say she was carrying at age 16. They tune in for The Secret Life of the American Teenager , an ongoing ABC drama about a pregnant 15-year-old. Now add Bristol Palin, spotlight of the week. When Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah...read more...// //Childhood friend gives kidney
The night before Jonas Read became a kidney donor, his mother was almost frantic. Dressed in his hospital gown, he mocked her concern: "Oh, no, you can't go driving around. What if you get in a car accident? No, you can't do this because you're gonna die. No, you can't do that because you're gonna die. Everything was gonna kill me!'' To calm her, Read, 19, said: "If I die, give...read more...// //It's not flirting, it's harassment
Sometimes a teenage girl's biggest problem isn't getting a guy to talk to her. It's getting a guy to stop. Christia Brown, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky, and Campbell Leaper, professor of psychology at the University of California Santa Cruz, asked 600 girls age 12 to 18 about their experiences with sexism and sexual harassment. What they found was...read more...// //Gloucester teens: If they knew what I know
BY ANA VECIANA-SUAREZ , aveciana@MiamiHerald.com For years I've joked that the best contraceptive was a bawling baby at 3 a.m. I was a young mother then, still inexperienced in the ways of colic and projectile vomiting. I thought I would never get a good night's sleep again. Time worked its magic, of course. Those nerve-wrecking colic bouts faded into memory, and I learned to clean up vomit...read more...// //Pitts: Bad policy fathers teen pregnancy
BY LEONARD PITTS JR ., lpitts@MiamiHerald.com So all we know for sure is that something happened in Gloucester, Mass. What that something was depends on whom you believe. Last week on its website, Time magazine quoted Gloucester High Principal Joseph Sullivan as saying that, of 17 girls who became pregnant during the school year, nearly half did so as part of a "pact'' to have and raise...read more...Pregnant teens: Was there a pact?
By MELISSA TRUJILLO, Associated Press GLOUCESTER, Mass. -- A pregnant high school student disputed her principal's headline-grabbing theory Tuesday that girls in this New England fishing town made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together. "There was definitely no pact,'' 17-year-old Lindsey Oliver told Good Morning America on Tuesday. "There was a group of...read more...
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