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This is not my beautiful house: We go back to old homes to reinhabit past selves. We don't own them anymore, but they belong to us nonetheless.; By Carol Lynn Mithers May 14, 2002
A new stunt to stunt growth: New restrictions on high school graduation go further to infantilize teenagers in the hope of making them perfect adults.; By Janelle Brown May 13, 2002
Why drug tests flunk: If the Supreme Court rules in favor of drug testing in public schools, will students come clean? Kids at schools in Indiana, where drug tests rule, say no way.; By Janelle Brown Apr 22, 2002
Lynda Barry: Crush; Dec 14, 2001
Lynda Barry: Velvet Sug; Dec 7, 2001
Dear Concerned Mother: My writing students in juvenile hall -- addicts, thieves, gangbangers -- have great parenting advice. All you have to do is ask.; By Jill Wolfson Nov 26, 2001
Payback time: My son is leaving to live with his dad. It is only fair -- and horrendously painful; By Debra Gordon Oct 23, 2001
If a child is a killer, are the parents to blame?: Psychologist and author James Garbarino says the responsibility for teen violence must be shared.; By Damien Cave Sep 6, 2001
Lynda Barry: Means he likes you.; Aug 10, 2001
Porn virgins: I remember the first time I saw a dirty movie with my girlfriends, when we still burst into hysterical laughter at the word "penis."; By Emily Jenkins Jul 25, 2001
On the custody circuit: My sister and I were lawless in transit, silent upon arrival.; By Rebecca Land Soodak Jun 29, 2001
Kids on the road: They have exchanged hair gel and television for playing blindman's buff and swimming with manta rays.; By Kate Convissor May 8, 2001
Been there, done that: The Santana High School shooting was terrifying. The students' response was chilling.; By Chris Colin Mar 6, 2001
I'm no Heidi: I felt happy rather than traumatized when I was told that my breasts were beginning to develop.; By Tracy Quan Feb 20, 2001
Lolita's book tour: Rebbecca Ray's novel, "Pure," written when she was 16, is a raw work of sexual exposure. Is it autobiographical? "Thank God it's not," she says.; By Tess Taylor Sep 20, 2000
Whose crisis is this, anyway?: Teens are getting the blame for their parents' failures.; By Debra Ollivier Aug 30, 2000
Facts of life: One wonderful, confusing, sweaty summer in Miami, I got my first lessons about sex from my pal, my dad and a Jersey girl.; By Stephen G. Bloom Apr 11, 2000
My heart aches for what I can't have: My daughter's boyfriend is the man of my dreams.; By Clea MacAllister Apr 4, 2000
Power play: What kind of kid would break up with his mother? Mine, apparently.; By Amy Sunshine Mar 16, 2000
Sex education with a contraceptive chaser: The French will distribute the morning-after pill in schools, much to parents' and the Pope's chagrin.; By Debra S. Ollivier Dec 6, 1999
"Paisley Girl": An excerpt from a powerful novel about how disease affects body and soul.; By Fran Gordon Oct 20, 1999
Sells like Teen Spirit: Savvy about the media, steeped in pop psychology, today's kids have problems the experts still don't understand.; By Alissa Quart Sep 16, 1999
Traumas in adolescent life: A judge of the Seventeen magazine fiction contest recalls what was endearing about the writers of the 400 stories she read --even the really bad ones.; By Curtis Sittenfeld Feb 17, 1999
Raging hormones: When I gave birth at nearly 40, I never considered the fact that 12 years later my son and I would both be having hot flashes.; By Celeste Fremon Jan 25, 1999
Geometry and hot pix: Nothing is so alien as your family during a college break.; By Chris Colin Oct 14, 1998

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