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American Teen Use Of Morning-After Pill is Climbing
More than 1 in 5 sexually active teen girls have used the morning-after pill — a dramatic increase that likely reflects that it’s easier now for teens to buy the emergency contraceptive. A report released Wednesday shows teen use of the morning-after pill rose steadily from a decade earlier, when it was 1 in 12. Now, all teens can buy it without a prescription.
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Five Found Dead In Broken Arrow Home, Two Teens Arrested
Broken Arrow Police arrested two teen brothers after finding five family members dead in a home Wednesday night.
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There Are Scientific Reasons Your Teen Loves Loud Music
It’s not just that kids are trying to drive their parents nuts by blaring their music—though that may be a bonus. I used it as an escape - my son does not, and he worries about decibels far more than I do! Most interesting read.
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Fewer American teens are having sex, but the teen birth rate is still high
Less than half of American teenagers over the age of 14 have had sex, according to a new CDC study. That's a significant drop, compared with rates seen in the late '80s.
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Teen 'fatally stabbed' dad after years of 'abuse'
A Brooklyn teen accused of fatally stabbing his dad is a good kid pushed to the brink by an abusive father who had been molesting one of the boy’s sister’s, neighbors and prosecutors said Sunday. “...
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Coquitlam teenager sentenced to 16 months in jail for 'swatting’
A Coquitlam teenager has been sentenced to 16 months in jail for online pranks and threats that caused mayhem in communities as far away as Ontario, California and Florida.
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Most antipsychotic drugs prescribed to teens without mental health diagnosis, study says
A new study indicates that antipsychotic drug use has been on the rise among adolescents, even though most had not been diagnosed with a mental disorder. The study, published this week in JAMA Psychiatry, used data from thousands of prescriptions to analyze trends between 2006 and 2010. The percentage of teens using the medication ticked up during the time period, with the highest rates of usage recorded among teens ages 13-18...
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What direction does this /t/ plan on going?
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Teen Leads Mob In Ransacking Of Georgia Walmart
JUNE 30--Led by a teenage boy throwing gang signs, a mob of vandals descended on a Walmart store in Georgia early Sunday and trashed the business in a reported attempt to “see how much damage they co
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Giving Advice to Teens Wanting to Tell Their Parents of Their Atheism
We all want to support atheist youth, but have to be cautious about providing advice when we know little about someone's circumstances.
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Long jumper Kate Hall of Maine topples oldest female high school field record
Kate Hall broke the oldest high school girls field event record Sunday, long jumping 22 feet, 5 inches at the New Balance National High School Invitational in Greensboro, N.C.
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Wish he was 4 again...
KICKSTARTER REWARD! Check out www.rockpapercynic.com for awesome comics!
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Teen pregnancies — and abortions — plummeted after Hawaii ditched abstinence-based sex ed
Public schools in Hawaii moved away from abstinence-based sex education about five years ago
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The Real Teens of Silicon Valley
Inside the almost-adult lives of the real teens of Silicon Valley
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Teens climb the Shenzhen Centre a whopping 660 meters of vertical insanity
For more than a year ago we’ve climbed Shanghai Tower certainly not expecting the resonance and the amount of feedback we’ve got. And so, that amount of feedback led us to an idea of making a tradition of roof toping new skyscrapers all around the world. Today’s hero of attention is a new financial center still under construction and is situated in Shenzhen, China. Right now its height is about 660 meters and that makes it the second tallest tower in the world. Right after Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
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Suicide is leading cause of death among South Korean teens, says report
Suicide is the leading cause of death among South Korean teenagers and young people, a government survey stated on Tuesday. Yonhap reported in 2013 those between the ages of nine and 24 experienced an increased rate of suicide than a decade earlier. For this age category, the suicide rate rose to 7.8 per 100,000, up from 7.4 in 2003. The Korea Times reported nearly eight percent of young people surveyed said they have contemplated suicide in 2014.
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E-cigarettes are erasing anti-smoking gains among teens, CDC says
The soaring popularity of electronic cigarettes threatens to wipe out hard-won gains in the fight against teen smoking, a new government report says.
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Terrifying video shows just how distracted teens can be when they drive
Oh man, this video is absolutely horrifying. Put together by AAA, it shows how distracted teenagers are when they drive. You see drivers take their eyes off the road to text, people ignoring cars while they're on the phone and a lot of them just not paying attention at all. You get to see the side-by-side of what they're doing vs the dash cam footage of the car.
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Teen kills himself after accidentally shooting girlfriend in Minnesota
Police in Minneapolis say a teenage boy killed himself Monday afternoon after he accidentally shot his girlfriend in the face and chest, CBS Minnesota reports. The Anoka County sheriff's office say 15-year-old Alantae Arnold shot his 14-year-old girlfriend with a handgun around 4 p.m. in an apartment building near the 11200 block of Robinson Drive Northwest, where the boy lived. He then ran about 250 feet to a nearby charter school parking lot and shot himself in the head.
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Five French teens held for vandalising Jewish graves
French prosecutors said Monday they had taken five teenagers into custody suspected of vandalising hundreds of Jewish graves, an act that prompted fresh pleas for Jews not to turn their back on France. The boys are aged between 15 and 17 and all come from Sarre-Union in Alsace, eastern France, where around 300 tombs were defaced and damaged on Thursday. The youngest came forward after seeing the scale of the reaction across the country to the vandalism...
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