Here is a fantastic page I found at About.com about GLBT teens.
You can find resources here for help if you are a gay teen and struggling with your family, your religion, your friends, your job or your school.
It’s fantastic that pages like this exist. The item that stuck out the most for me was the [...]
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A recent report is coming out showcasing something that I thought people already knew: that drinking alcohol at an early age can lead to increased alcohol dependence when older.
You can read about the story at Science Daily.
This study and previous work has shown many people studied who had started drinking before age 17 were alcohol [...]
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We’ve all heard about this by now, right?
17 girls in a high school in Massachusetts joined a “pregnancy pact” so they all can raise their children together.
There are rumors that a couple of the girls were already pregnant when the pact was made, and they all decided that best way to support each other is [...]
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A new show premiered tonight on ABC Family called “The Secret Life of an American Teenager“. It will be shown every Tuesday at 8pm EST.
The basic premise is that there is a cute young girl who has pre-marital sex and gets pregnant. Also, basically everyone on the show is a Christian and Jesus-followers who aren’t [...]
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From a closely related blog, the Teen Abortion Issues blog, I found this post yesterday about a girl who got an abortion last year. It seems she is really upset about it, and still thinks about it constantly. Here is an excerpt:
“I was dating an amazing guy. I was his first, and he was my [...]
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