Teenagers

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  • Crime school

    Does prosecuting teenagers as adults make society safer?
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Don't stand so close to me

    The Supreme Court ruling to protect school districts from liability in sexual harassment cases leaves students to protect themselves.
  • Abstinence blues: Teen sex isn't always traumatic

  • Resurrection Man

    Richard Price talks about getting off drugs, getting out of Hollywood and his new novel, based on the Susan Smith case.
  • Raging hormones

    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.
  • Salon Mothers Who Think | Not waiting to inhale

    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.
  • Fat chance

    Can a fat teenager find happiness? Cherie Bennett, author of the young adult novel "Life In the Fat Lane," talks about binge-and-barf clubs, Madeleine Albright's thighs and why well-meaning mothers often make things worse.
  • Love and justice

    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
  • Losing it

    No lover but the first will ever know me as both a child and a woman.
  • 21st: Schools of hard knocks

    "Lock ups" for "defiant teens" use questionable tactics -- on the Web and off.
  • Casanovas who kill

    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.
  • Why Johnny (and Janie) can't get it on.

  • Mom's a head-banger but her daughter just keeps on truckin'.

  • Kids having kids: whose decision is it?

    A recent court ruling in California reignies the debate over whether prgnant minors are capable of making a decision about abortion.
  • It's a girl thing

    Of first bras, near-kisses and why the sixth grade sucks
  • little monsters

    The scariest aliens on the screen this summer are our teenage children.
  • breaking point

    It's true, says one teenager -- teachers are being pushed over the edge by the savagery of their students.
  • Little Monsters

    Youth advisor Nell Bernstein reviews the movie 'I87' starring Samuel L. Jackson and decides that the scariest aliens on the screen this summer are our teenage children.
  • Ripe

    Twin sisters undergo a painful and sensual coming-of-age in "ripe."
  • The Awful Truth

    Relearning to Brainwash Our Nation's Youth
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