While levels of alcohol use among adolescents remain high, the perceived risk associated with such use appears to be declining. From 1992 to 2002, the percentage of 12th graders perceiving "great risk of harm" associated with drinking four or five drinks per day, nearly everyday, dropped from 71% to 59% (Johnston et al, 2003). ... Linda Spear (2000a,b) suggests that the following changes are all typical of adolescence and should, along with other factors, be considered in any attempt to define its range: 1) Increase in time spent with peers, decrease in time spent with family 2) In...

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The failure of finishing school and going further in education put the young mother into risk of limiting themselves of employment options with low-wage jobs and increase chance of being poor. ... Of course, many will probably disagree with this assertion that infants born to teen has higher medical risk for prematurity, low birth weight, and inadequate fetal growth than who gives birth at 20-30's. ...

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Teenagers in the United States are experimenting with sexual activities more and more today than ever before. According to Charles Krauthammer, "Sex oozes from every pore of the culture and there's not a kid in the world who can avoid it." (Meier, 1994, p. 7). Teenagers are surrounded by some sort o...

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In the recent years, many disciplines have focused on understanding childhood. Researchers from psychology, sociology, human development, religious studies, and other disciplines have sought to analyze childhood. However, the fact that all these disciplines have held varying perspectives without the existence of a childhood studies as a core subject of study like feminism. This has limited the possibility of addressing research in childhood as a central subject of knowledge. Evidently, these disciplines have embarked on research, yielding interesting findings that have served to shed light on ...

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A third test was done and the researchers found that eighty-two point four percent had been involved with at least one nonsuicidal self-injury incident. With these statistics, it is important that counselors work with young people to help them recognize the signs of self-harm and how certain environments can provide a higher risk for self-harm (Richardson, Surmitis, Hyldahl 121). ...

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