Tag: teenagers

YOUR TAKE: Do Associations Prevent Inappropriate Behavior?

YOUR TAKE: Do Associations Prevent Inappropriate Behavior?

Does being in a long-term, committed relationship make you more well-behaved than your friends who date around? According to a recent study from the University of Texas, the answer is yes. The study says that sexually active teens in romantic relationships are less likely to engage in delinquent behavior than teens who have casual sex, and [...]

October 25, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Teens and sex: 4 out of 5 teenage boys use condoms their first time

Teens and sex: 4 out of 5 teenage boys use condoms their first time

CHICAGO — A surprising 80 percent of teenage boys say they are using condoms the first time they have sex, a government survey found in a powerful sign that decades of efforts to change young people’s sexual behavior are taking hold. But another promising trend – a drop since the 1980s in the number of [...]

October 13, 2011 | 0 Comments More
£ 100-an-hour tutors and children wake up at 5:00 to study: Meeting with parents who will do anything to get their children to grammar school

£ 100-an-hour tutors and children wake up at 5:00 to study: Meeting with parents who will do anything to get their children to grammar school

Every week, tutor Stephanie Williams rings the doorbell of a house in Brentwood, Essex, to be greeted by two girls, nine-year-old Riya Mohan and her sister Maya, four. Stephanie sits down with Riya and starts asking her questions. ‘What is an oxymoron — give me an example? What is another word for guttural?’ When their [...]

October 12, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Sex Education Tips

Sex Education Tips

Last week, New York required sex education for grades 6 or 7, and then again in grades 9 or 10. Astoundingly, this is news, and not just news but groundbreaking news, because somehow, regardless of everything we know about sex education, regardless of everything we know about how little abstinence education works, we still shudder at [...]

August 22, 2011 | 0 Comments More
Drinking Age

Drinking Age

Why we had the restriction on age of drinking?  It is hard to ignore the fact that this law is broken everyday. It’s the 90′s all teens just want to fit in. Kids are drinking at a much younger age. Now, even 10 year olds and 11 year olds are trying to fit in with [...]

May 13, 2011 | 14 Comments More
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