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Under the cover of night, I follow my son through the streets, into the subway, across the viaduct, until we come to the place spray-painted with elegies for dead friends.
By Deborah Digges
June 26, 2001
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Adolescent psychiatrist Lynn Ponton analyzes the first daughter's "age-appropriate" behavior.
By Fiona Morgan
May 31, 2001
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My son discovers porn and I resort to subterfuge.
By Margot Nightingale
May 25, 2001
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I'm the gay kid the Christian Coalition wants your kid to be able to harass at school.
By Casey Creel
May 17, 2001
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They have exchanged hair gel and television for playing blindman's buff and swimming with manta rays.
By Kate Convissor
May 8, 2001
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When good girls grow up to be bad girls, their mothers indulge in maternal hysteria. The lucky moms then get book contracts.
By Amy Benfer
March 29, 2001
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A Thai politician is under investigation for hosting a sex party with underage girls.
By Jack Boulware
January 29, 2001
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By Ariel Amundsen
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December 15, 2000
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Teens have casually redefined what used to be called sex.
By Susannah Indigo
December 14, 2000
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A 15-year-old finds that her church fosters hatred and fear when it should be about tolerance and love.
By Ariel Amundsen
December 13, 2000
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The author of "A Map of the World" picks five great books about depressed teenagers.
By Jane Hamilton
September 21, 2000
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Why is it so hard for us to accept that when a horrible death occurs, there isn't always a villain?
By Jennifer Foote Sweeney
September 8, 2000
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This film shows the wistfulness of young and integrated sexuality in the 1950s.
By David Thomson
September 1, 2000
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Teens are getting the blame for their parents' failures.
By Debra Ollivier
August 30, 2000
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A booming market emerges for consultants to desperate parents.
By Debra Ollivier
August 30, 2000
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We defiled one another with bourbon and blow jobs, back when New York was more conducive to decadence.
By Tony Mitch
June 21, 2000
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Columbine made teenage problems national news -- but kids need community action, not anemic P.R.
By Arianna Huffington
May 10, 2000
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We asked for grand plans and we got more than a few.
March 27, 2000
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Four random but not randy "tween" girls talk about boobs, boys and sex -- and why they're not in a hurry to have any of it.
By Karen Houppert
October 22, 1999
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NBC's affectionate "Freaks and Geeks" lets high school nobodys have their day.
By Joyce Millman
September 24, 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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When do children have a right to decide their gender?
By Maria Russo
August 28, 1999
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Once, I thought my daughter would win the Nobel Prize. Now that she's started college, I just hope she keeps her phone, her power, her housing -- and remembers to wake up for class.
By Stephen J. Lyons
August 19, 1999
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Gloomy, morbid, doomed and glorious, Goth kids frighten adults, but they're part of a grand -- and essential -- tradition of outsider audacity.
By Charles Taylor
August 5, 1999
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Sex ed. takes a beating in Minneapolis; Slovenia hires a PR firm; black Sam Spades take the whodunit stage.
By Jenn Shreve
May 28, 1999
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Mommy's little monster
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Whose crisis is this, anyway?
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