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  • July 2008

    • Kids Dump Exercise by Their Teens

      newser  |  HealthDay News  |  Jul 16, 08 9:59 AM CDT

      Kids Dump Exercise by Their Teens

      American children stop getting enough exercise by the time they reach their teens, according to a new study. Researchers tracked more than 1,000 children and discovered that those who averaged three hours of exercise a day at age 9 barely managed 30 minutes of physical activity at 15, reports HealthDay. A lack of exercise is linked to childhood obesity. Experts recommend children get at least an hour a day of moderate to vigorous activity. More »

    • Survey Reveals Abuse In Teen, Tween Dating

      newser  |  CBS  |  Jul 9, 08 5:45 PM CDT

      Survey Reveals Abuse In Teen, Tween Dating

      Tween and teen dating is far from a bunch of innocent hand-holding: A survey finds 69% of teens who have had sex by 14 have suffered physical or emotional abuse in relationships, with only half of tweens knowing how to recognize a hurtful relationship. CBS reports more stats: The survey found 37% of 11- and 12-year-olds have been in a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship. 9% of that same group has a friend who has had sex; 40% have friends who have been verbally abused in a relationship. More »

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      teenagers  • abuse  • relationship  • dating  • teenager  • teen health  • teen sex  • verbal abuse  • physical abuse

    • Teen Prostitutes Find Help at LA Shelter

      newser  |  Good Magazine  |  Jul 6, 08 5:27 AM CDT

      Teen Prostitutes Find Help at LA Shelter

      "I'm their mother," says the founder of a Los Angeles shelter for teen prostitutes. For almost three decades, Children of the Night has focused on helping girls recover from their past rather than treating them like criminals, Good Magazine reports. Shelter founder Lois Lois "isn’t like other social-service types," said one LAPD officer. "Lois sees the big picture." More »

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      teenagers  • charity  • prostitute  • sex crime  • child prostitution  • social services  • women's shelters

    • Tween Star Shines in The Wackness

      newser  |  Metacritic  |  Jul 4, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      Tween Star Shines in The Wackness

      Ex-Nickelodeon star Josh Peck shines in The Wackness , a dark comedy set in 1994 Manhattan. Jonathan Levine's coming-of-age film is “both darkly funny and life-affirming, in an offbeat and offhanded way,” writes Claudia Puig of USA Today . Peck as Luke, who’s selling pot out of an Italian ice cart, “shows you the sweet, virginal kid hiding inside the outlaw poseur,” writes Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly . More »

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      movie review  • teenagers  • Nickelodeon  • Mary Kate Olsen

  • June 2008

    • Percentage of Teen Smokers Holds Steady at 20%

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 28, 08 10:04 PM CDT

      Percentage of Teen Smokers Holds Steady at 20%

      The number of teens who smoke has stopped declining, and anti-smoking activists worry that complacency is setting in, the Washington Post reports. The latest survey shows that 20% of kids between the ages of 13 and 17 light up, a figure that has generally held steady since 2003. It remains a marked improvement from the figure of 36.4% n 1997, but the leveling off has health officials worried. More »

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      public health  • teenagers  • cigarettes  • tobacco  • tobacco companies  • teen smoking

    • Want a Skinny Kid? Don't Tell Her She's Fat

      newser  |  Minneapolis Star Tribune  |  Jun 2, 08 4:18 PM CDT

      Want a Skinny Kid? Don't Tell Her She's Fat

      A new study of obese teens has produced a counterintuitive indication: Parents should under no circumstances tell pudgy youngsters to diet, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports. A group of teens correctly identified by parents as overweight and encouraged to diet were more likely to still be chunky 5 years later than was a group with clueless parents who took no action. More »

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      children  • teenagers  • parenting  • diet  • scientific study  • teen health  • obese

    • Abstinence Campaign Targets Parents

      newser  |  Washington Post  |  Jun 1, 08 6:17 AM CDT

      Abstinence Campaign Targets Parents

      Abstinence-based sex-ed advocates have launched a campaign to rally a million parents to support the method, the Washington Post reports. The $1-million Parents for Truth campaign has sent e-mails pushing the approach to some 30,000 supporters and parents, with plans to to contact 100,000 more this week. The group hopes parents will lobby local schools and elect officials to support a focus on abstinence. More »

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      teenagers  • sex  • parents  • sex education  • abstinence education

  • May 2008
  • April 2008

    • Why We Love Gossip Girl

      newser  |  New York  |  Apr 27, 08 2:49 PM CDT

      Why We Love Gossip Girl

      New York magazine writers Jessica Pressler and Chris Rovzar have come out of the closet. No, not that closet—the one hiding adult fans of Gossip Girl . The pair once justified their love for the CW's teen soap opera by calling it "awesomely bad … like Showgirls . Or a Bloomin' Onion." Now they declare it "awesomely awesome." Here are six reasons why: More »

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      list  • television  • celebrity  • New York  • teenagers  • gossip  • Gossip Girl

    • Mock Rocker Woos Teens to the White Stuff

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Apr 16, 08 3:10 AM CDT

      Mock Rocker Woos Teens to the White Stuff

      He drinks milk out of his hollow, transparent guitar and hits power chords while singing the virtues of the white stuff. The frontman for "White Gold" doesn’t have a milk mustache, but the dairy industry hopes the ad campaign centered around the fake rock god will boost declining milk sales, Newsweek reports. Between 1981 and 2006, US consumption of milk dipped 14%. More »

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      YouTube  • advertising  • teenagers  • advertising campaign  • milk

    • YouTube Beating Bruises Dr. Phil

      newser  |  New York Daily News  |  Apr 14, 08 1:16 PM CDT

      YouTube Beating Bruises Dr. Phil

      TV shrink Phil McGraw is in the hot seat again after a staffer bailed out the suspected ringleader of a teen YouTube beating in exchange for an exclusive interview, the New York Daily News reports. America’s favorite unlicensed daytime doc, who dispatched a producing team to Florida last week to cobble together interviews, has since canceled his teen-attack special. More »

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      television  • YouTube  • Britney Spears  • teenagers  • Dr Phil  • bail  • taped beating

    • Celeb Virgins Find Chastity a Hit

      newser  |  ABC News  |  Apr 1, 08 9:59 AM CDT

      Celeb Virgins Find Chastity a Hit

      Young stars are defying the "sex sells" mantra by rising to success while emphasizing their virginity, ABC reports. Teen heart-throbs like Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers, as well as older celebs like Victoria's Secret model Adriana Lima, appear to be part of a growing modesty movement and say they're proud of their chaste status. But insiders wonder if some of the squeaky-clean images are merely a ploy to appeal to parents. More »

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      teenagers  • sex  • Miley Cyrus  • abstinence  • Jonas Brothers  • virginity  • Adriana Lima

  • March 2008

    • Mexico's Emo Teens Under Fire

      newser  |  Wired  |  Mar 28, 08 10:58 AM CDT

      Mexico's Emo Teens Under Fire

      An ugly clash of cultures is surfacing in Mexico with so-called emo teenagers being viciously beaten in big cities across the country, Wired reports. In one well-publicized attack north of Mexico City, an 800-strong mob—made up of punk fans and ordinary working-class teens—beat up a handful of long-haired, mascara-wearing teens. Another attack in the capital itself has prompted the police to begin anti-riot patrols. More »

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      Mexico  • teenagers  • Latin America  • riots  • Mexico City  • youth  • Tijuana  • emo

    • States Weigh Lowering Drinking Age

      newser  |  USA Today  |  Mar 21, 08 3:45 PM CDT

      States Weigh Lowering Drinking Age

      Several states are considering lowering the drinking age, spurred in part by concerns that teenage service members can fight overseas but can’t drink at home, USA Today reports. Kentucky, Wisconsin, and South Carolina are weighing a military-only change to alcohol laws, while other states may lower the legal age for all, with a few stipulations. More »

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      alcohol  • American troops  • teenagers  • South Carolina  • beer  • Minnesota  • Wisconsin  • Missouri  • Kentucky  • Vermont  • South Dakota  • state governments

    • Teens' Public Orgies Rattle Chilean Mores

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Mar 20, 08 3:30 PM CDT

      Teens' Public Orgies Rattle Chilean Mores

      Can 100 teenagers performing oral sex on one another in a public park not be a political statement? That's one of the questions the sight of horny, apolitical, bisexual Chilean teenagers are prompting among their appalled, mostly Catholic compatriots, Newsweek reports from a country still haunted by General Pinochet's repressive ghost, yet taking full advantage of his free-market legacy. More »

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      teenagers  • homosexuality  • Catholicism  • Latin America  • Chile  • sexuality  • sexual behavior  • consumerism  • heterosexual  • bisexual  • Augusto Pinochet

    • For Generation 'Look at Me,' Every Moment Is Public

      newser  |  Newsweek  |  Mar 16, 08 1:21 PM CDT

      For Generation 'Look at Me,' Every Moment Is Public

      They’re known as millennials, the documentation generation, and the Look at Me’s. But what defines Americans born after 1982 is a mindset that every moment can be turned into a performance worthy of YouTube and MySpace and maybe parlayed into broader fame, Newsweek reports. Now sociologists are asking: Can healthy identities and relationships thrive in a generation obsessed with self-presentation and exhibitionism? More »

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      celebrity  • Facebook  • YouTube  • MySpace  • teenagers  • reality TV  • MySpace Celebrity  • Laguna Beach

    • Film Biz Goes Bananas Over Hannah

      newser  |  Variety  |  Mar 12, 08 10:13 PM CDT

      Film Biz Goes Bananas Over Hannah

      Film execs looking to inject life into the dormant sphere of alternative content—showing concerts, sporting events, etc., in theaters—are turning their eyes toward teen star Miley Cyrus and her cash-cow alter ego, Hannah Montana. Cyrus dominated conversation today at an industry conference because her enormously popular 3-D concert film proved that the concept can work in the US, Variety reports. More »

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      teenagers  • concert  • Miley Cyrus  • Hannah Montana  • film studio  • movie industry  • movie theaters

    • One-Quarter of Teen Girls Have STDs

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 11, 08 4:00 PM CDT

      One-Quarter of Teen Girls Have STDs

      At least one in four teen girls in the US—that's over three million people—has a sexually transmitted disease, a new CDC study shows. By far the most common infection is the human papillomavirus, which can cause cervical cancer, the AP reports. An STD expert calls the new figures "clear signs that we must continue developing ways to reach those most at risk." More »

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      teenagers  • CDC  • STD  • cervical cancer  • HPV  • teen health

    • Texas Teen Planned Family's Murder for a Month: Cops

      newser  |  Tyler (Texas) Morning Telegraph  |  Mar 4, 08 11:25 AM CST

      Texas Teen Planned Family's Murder for a Month: Cops

      The 16-year-old Texas girl charged with killing her mother and brothers didn't decide to murder her family on a whim. Erin Caffey and her boyfriend discussed the homicide “for about a month,” according to police reports. Caffey waited outside in a car while the boyfriend and an accomplice allegedly shot Caffey’s parents and shot and stabbed her brothers with a “sword,” reports the Tyler Morning Telegraph. More »

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      Texas  • teenagers  • stabbing  • Penny Caffey  • Tyler Caffey  • Mathew Caffey  • Terry Caffey  • Charlie James Wilkinson  • Charles Allen Wade

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