Related News Items'Tough love' keeps teens from binge drinkingTue, 22 May 2012 18:08:10 -0700
The headlines state that one in ten teens are binge drinkers and graphic photos of them vomiting in the street paint an unflattering picture of a sub-culture out of control.
Read More... Obesity major cause of children's health issuesThu, 24 May 2012 17:22:14 -0700
Society has to change if Central New York is going to ward off the impacts of the growing number of obese children — early disease, early disability and early death, local doctors said.
Read More... Grace Dent: Personally, I'd fire bullying teens from a cannon and relocate the 'feral' kids to Chipping NortonTue, 22 May 2012 12:36:27 -0700
To the utter indifference of social nuisances UK-wide, Theresa May has announced changes to Britain's antisocial behaviour policies. Out with the Asbo, in with the Crimbo, the criminal behaviour order. Five individual complaints and you're offski. It's a chirpier, more festive sounding instrument of control. Until yesterday Crimbo was simply a bastardisation of "Christmas", one of those words it ...
Read More... C. diff on Rise in Kids -- and Outside HospitalTue, 22 May 2012 22:08:04 -0700
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Read More... New Study Shows Rise in Teen Diabetes, Heart Disease RiskMon, 21 May 2012 20:15:56 -0700
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A new study shows alarming statistics about the health of many U.S. teenagers. Since 2000, the rate of kids with diabetes and pre-diabetes nearly tripled from 9% to 23%. One of four kids ages 12 to 19 have two or more risk factors for heart disease.
Read More... on the Bully pulpitThu, 24 May 2012 21:10:07 -0700
To be gay and out in a Louisiana middle school is to be frightened every day. Is this the day you get called names or get smacked around or hear — yet again — that somebody wants to kill you? Taylor Simpson, now a junior at North Eugene High School, …
Read More... LGBT students speak out in Eugene, seek ways to end school harassmentFri, 25 May 2012 01:41:53 -0700
To be gay and out in a Louisiana middle school is to be frightened every day. Is this the day you get called names or get smacked around or hear — yet again — that somebody wants to kill you? Taylor Simpson, now a junior at North Eugene High School, …
Read More... Broad inquest into deaths of seven native teens a step closerWed, 23 May 2012 20:13:41 -0700
In 10 years, seven native teens died in Thunder Bay while attending high school. An inquest into those deaths is a step closer to reality.
Read More... Democrats’ gay marriage excuseFri, 25 May 2012 07:32:57 -0700
Are Democratic politicians, like Andrew Cuomo, using social issues to distract from the economic status quo?
Read More... FREE2LUV celebrates uniqueness, fights teen bullyingThu, 17 May 2012 21:23:59 -0700
A new nonprofit called FREE2LUV has been launched by an Alki couple to offer cover to youth getting bullied, both gay and straight, and to encourage individualism in teens pressured by their peers to "blend in". Tonya and Kym Sandis said they "never call a bully a bully". "We call it an 'act of bullying,'" Kym explained. "The labeling, and putting people in boxes, is where it all starts. The kid ...
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