Adolescent News
Teenagers want sex €” but a third get unwanted sex
Tuesday August 4, 2009
IN THEIR most impressionable adolescent years, a third of high school students say they have experienced unwanted sex.Arresting Times With Party Season Now In Full Swing
Saturday January 10, 2009
LAST summer it was Corey Worthington's shindig in Narre Warren. Now the axis for adolescent excess has shifted westward to Werribee where another teenage party has ended in police air wing intervention, a media frenzy - and even some bad behaviour from the grown-ups.Imam Blessed Polygamous Marriage: Report
Saturday November 22, 2008
CIHAN, an Arab woman with three adolescent children, was given an unpleasant surprise last year. Her husband told her that four years ago he had taken a second wife, an Anglo-Australian who was now expecting their third child.Joining The Dots To Make Another Number
Monday November 17, 2008
UNCHARACTERISTIC as it may be for an adolescent, I realise I'm not the centre of the world. I know I'm insignificant, small and, ultimately, just another dot on the page - but that doesn't necessarily mean I like being reminded of the fact.Henson's Nudes Taken At Face Value
Saturday October 18, 2008
No one threatened to close controversial photographer Bill Henson's latest New York exhibition, but his nude portraits of adolescent girls, taken at face value, remain unsettling even for some sophisticated New Yorkers.New Yorkers Take Henson Photo Controversy In Their Stride
Saturday October 18, 2008
NO ONE threatened to close down controversial photographer Bill Henson's latest New York exhibition, but his nude portraits of adolescent girls, taken at face value, remain unsettling even for sophisticated New Yorkers.Beware Science Of Mind Reading
Saturday October 4, 2008
LAST week a piece of research was released that had every father who has ever been chastised by his adolescent children for wearing a loud shirt, telling a bad joke or dancing to the Rolling Stones, heaving a sigh of relief.Yes, Kids Are Bombarded By Sleaze, But We Must Be Their Role Models
Friday May 23, 2008
The media's influence on adolescent sexuality is exceedingly complex ("Saturated with sex: the campaign to save young minds", May 22). As the father of two adolescent daughters I have closely watched their attitude to the sexual imagery with which they are confronted on almost a daily basis. The sleaze that is routinely part of music video clips would not have been broadcast a generation ago without public debate, and it is not pretty to watch.Uni Academic Denied Natural Justice: Review
Monday April 28, 2008
THE University of Sydney has denied natural justice to one of its leading academics in adolescent health during an investigation into the collection of blood samples from Sydney school students for medical research, a review committee has found.Doing Anger Differently: Helping Adolescent Boys
Saturday February 16, 2008
Doing Anger Differently: Helping Adolescent Boys
Michael Currie
Melbourne University Press, $34.95Ugliness Abounds In The Beautiful Game
Thursday February 7, 2008
FIGHTING with my wife recently over the relative merits of the Newcastle Jets vs the Central Coast Mariners match and the ABC News, followed by a documentary on adolescent black bears, I asked her what she had against football. Big mistake.She Ain't Heavy - She's My Daughter
Thursday November 1, 2007
In the battle against anorexia nervosa success has come in a program which puts parents on the front line, writes Lissa Christopher. AS A PARENT of a child with anorexia nervosa, Carolin Gray knows all about being found wanting. The Maudsley program is now seen as "the outpatient treatment of choice for children and adolescents [worldwide]" but you'd be hard pressed to find much about it outside medical journals, says Dr Sloane Madden, the co-director of the child and adolescent eating disorder ...No Sacred Cows For Kiwi Bros
Thursday September 6, 2007
AT FIRST glance, "New Zealand's first prime-time cartoon" bro'Town seemed little more than an Antipodean remake of South Park. The premise is a carbon copy of the breakaway American series - four adolescent boys get themselves into all sorts of scrapes while trying to make sense of the sick and twisted adult world around them. When bro'Town made its Australian debut a year ago, the reception in the local press was either dismissive of the puerile jokes and underlying message of "tolerance" (a ...Footballers Paying The Price For Fading Family Values
Saturday June 30, 2007
AS THE latest litany of off-field misdemeanours committed by sports stars is exposed, spare a thought for the adolescent boys whose values they are corrupting. These youngsters are so slavishly devoted to the poster boys of the game that their moral compass is hopelessly skewed when the likes of Sonny Bill Williams urinates in public. These are developing, impressionable minds, after all.These Boots Were Made For Talking
Saturday June 30, 2007
THE drive to Yarramalong afforded time to reminisce about being off school with adolescent measles, the old upright radio in the next room filling the mid-morning space with a voice as rich as molasses.Rock Clips Shaping Young Girls' Body Image
Friday June 1, 2007
FIRST the finger was pointed at those skinny women on fashion pages, billboards and catwalks. Now research shows that music videos are harming adolescent girls' self-esteem.Researchers Surprised By Teenage 'joiners'
Monday April 30, 2007
CONTRARY to the stereotype of the angst-ridden adolescent, today's teenagers are more connected to the community than many adults give them credit for, a study suggests.Teenagers' Secret World
Saturday April 28, 2007
An adolescent subculture and the net have been the focus of blame after an apparent suicide pact involving two 16-year-old girls. But is such finger pointing justified?An Adolescent's Guide To Dealing With Grief, Written From Experience
Saturday April 28, 2007
In her new book, Erin Vincent revisits how it felt to lose both parents at age 14. She talks to Lily Bragge.Wry Adolescent And A Funny Tour Of Meaning
Monday April 23, 2007
COMEDY FESTIVAL REVIEWS: JOSH THOMAS: PLEASE LIKE ME * * * *
Melbourne Town Hall,
until April 29.
Running time: 50 minutes
MATT ELSBURY - MEANING ...? * * *
Pony, Lt Collins Street, city,
until April 28.
Running time: 55 minutes