What would make you share your home with an angst and hormone-ridden girl who thinks she’s so unloveable, she slashes her arms and believes the boy she hardly knows who wants sex with her in the park is showing her affection?
Because you wholeheartedly believe that every child deserves a caring childhood - and you have the courage to help the ones who never had such a thing on the journey to becoming a well-adjusted adult.
World of Youth
Youth related news articles from across the world.
Jun 6 2011 - 3:26pm
. "As warm weather approaches, some questions get asked more often."
And if you think your daughter doesn't care what you have to say, research shows otherwise. A KidsHealth.org survey found that 58 percent of girls want to talk about puberty with their mom, versus 20 percent who want to discuss it with a friend and 7 percent who prefer a sist
Jun 6 2011 - 3:22pm
Researchers found that the toddlers who were treated well by their mothers and who were better at resolving conflicts as teenagers tended to be committed in their adult relationships.
May 31 2011 - 11:02am
Girls who choose more sexualized clothing are more at risk for body image problems and are perceived as less intelligent, the Kenyon researchers suggest. In another study Murnen and her associates showed 162 college-age subjects three pictures of a fifth-grade girl: one in sexualized clothing, one in ambiguously sexualized clothing, and one in childlike clothing. “The [participants] found the girl in sexualized clothing to be less competent, less intelligent and less moral,” says Murnen.
May 31 2011 - 11:01am
A number of years ago I overheard my then teenage son discussing with his friends the origin of AIDS. They were not discussing how AIDS developed -- arguing whether it was some errant African virus or something else such as then current conspiracy theories like germ warfare gone awry or a covered up artifact of vaccination. Rather they were arguing why -- a much deeper spiritual question. Was this disease a simple development of nature, a cosmic punishment, a divine opportunity for compassion or
May 31 2011 - 11:00am
THURSDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) -- Children in both China and the United States who want to please their parents tend to do better at school, new research finds.
Yet in the United States, American kids' drive to please their parents declines during early adolescence, while in China feelings of obligation toward parents stay strong and even grow as kids hit their teenage years
May 10 2011 - 10:47am
Adolescent change keeps upsetting and resetting the terms of your life all the way through growing up.
The most important thing for you to keep in mind is that as adolescence grows you from the child you were to the young adult you will become, it also changes the relationship with your parents.
Once it begins, your parents suffer an enormous loss. They will never have you as their little child again. That adoring period in your relationship is forever passed. The treasured companionship w
May 10 2011 - 10:46am
There are five features of an emerging adult, Arnett said: 1) They are searching for their identity and exploring different options; 2) Their lives are unstable; 3) They are self-focused, meaning they are not yet beholden to anyone; 4) They feel "in-between" adolescence and adulthood; and 5) It's a time of remarkable optimism.
Emerging adults were generally ages 18 to 30, he said, often getting some monetary and emotional support from parents as they build their own lives. Defining this new
May 10 2011 - 10:41am
"Nothing can be further from the truth. What we understand, on the basis of all of the evidence, is that parents are the primary educators and influencers of young people. Youth are watching, they are listening, they crave our attention and they are waiting for the kind of guidance and input that they need to know, in order to learn how to navigate life."
May 3 2011 - 9:31am
Research on privacy has shown that the relationship between kids hiding things from parents to preserve their privacy and parents prying into their kids' business creates a downward spiral that leaves both of them unhappy. Parents are good at detecting lies and avoidance and respond by redoubling their efforts to glean what information they can. Kids respond to parental prying by pushing back and hiding more. Over time kids share less and hide more. And parents pry more and know less.
