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My daughter's boyfriend is the man of my dreams.
By Clea MacAllister
April 4, 2000
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What kind of kid would break up with his mother? Mine, apparently.
By Amy Sunshine
March 16, 2000
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The French will distribute the morning-after pill in schools, much to parents' and the Pope's chagrin.
By Debra S. Ollivier
December 6, 1999
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An excerpt from a powerful novel about how disease affects body and soul.
By Fran Gordon
October 20, 1999
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Savvy about the media, steeped in pop psychology, today's kids have problems the experts still don't understand.
By Alissa Quart
September 16, 1999
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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
February 17, 1999
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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
January 25, 1999
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Nothing is so alien as your family during a college break.
By Chris Colin
October 14, 1998
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By Susie Bright
June 19, 1998
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There are still plenty of dull sex books for kids with organ
diagrams that resemble bus maps of Rome. But there are also some
honest, respectful books that tell kids what they really want to
know.
By Polly Shulman
May 13, 1998
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Controversial former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders talks about Big Tobacco's slick marketing campaigns, a new study showing that smoking among black teens is on the rise and why, despite everything, she believes President Clinton's private life should remain just that -- private.
By Dawn MacKeen
April 9, 1998
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Two black authors explore tales of same-sex and interracial teenage love in a new crop of young-adult novels. In her monthly children's books column, Polly Shulman reviews 'Lives of Our Own' by Lorri Hewett and 'The House you Pass On the Way' by Jacqueline Woodson
By Polly Shulman
February 24, 1998
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Nushawn Williams, who may have spread HIV to dozens of girls, is being treated as Public Enemy No. 1. But a doctor who treats teens says there are thousands of men like him.
By Dawn MacKeen
November 10, 1997
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Of first bras, near-kisses and why the sixth grade sucks
By Cynthia Joyce
August 11, 1997
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