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Polar Bear in Norway Attack Was Starving

Group's camp was surrounded by faulty tripwire

(Newser) - The mauling victims of a starving polar bear have been airlifted from Norway to Britain for treatment. The bear killed a teenager on a Norway science trip before a team leader managed to kill the animal with a gun that jammed four times. The adult leader, a co-worker, and two...

Daughter Shoots Dad With Arrow for Grounding Her

15-year-old did not take kindly to being grounded, having cell phone taken away

(Newser) - Most teens would throw some sort of fit if you took away their cellphone/iPod/video game ... but this girl reportedly went primeval. Washington state authorities arrested a 15-year-old girl for allegedly shooting her dad with an arrow after he grounded her and took her cellphone away last night. The father, who...

Teen Love Triangle Ends in 'Depraved' Murder

6 charged in murder of 15-year-old Florida boy

(Newser) - Five Floridians between the ages of 15 and 20 have been charged with first-degree murder in a slaying that one of the suspects' lawyers admits is "pretty damn depraved." The killing was apparently triggered by a love triangle and an ugly Facebook feud in which the victim called...

Parents, It's Time to Talk With Teens About Porn

Dr. Harold Koplewicz: It can distort their views of relationships

(Newser) - Sorry, parents, but it's time to add porn to that talk about the birds and the bees. The days of hidden Playboys have been replaced by a 24-7 pornography culture that gives confused teens a skewed sense of sexuality, as seen in all those lewd "sexts" and salacious Facebook...

Teen Brains Develop Ability to Avoid Risky Behavior

It might help them ward off peer pressure

(Newser) - Looks like teens have a built-in defense mechanism against peer pressure: New research shows that the part of the brain involved in decision-making develops significantly in the early teen years, the Telegraph reports. Researchers from the University of Oregon found that activity in the ventral striatum, a part of the...

Eating Disorders Hit 500K Teens

3% of teens affected by binge-eating, bulimia, or anorexia

(Newser) - An eating disorder study being billed as the largest analysis of US teens ever is returning some depressingly large numbers: More than half a million have had an eating disorder, according to government research. Binge-eating was the most common disorder, found in 1.5% of teens studied, followed by bulimia...

Abusive Boyfriends Sabotage Birth Control
Abusive Boyfriends
Sabotage
Birth Control
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Feb 19, 2011 8:49 AM CST

Abusive Boyfriends Sabotage Birth Control

Report suggests it's disturbingly common

(Newser) - A new report sheds light on a form of domestic abuse that hasn't received much attention: men pressuring their partners to get pregnant against their will, sometimes by sabotaging birth control or forcing unprotected sex. In a survey of callers to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, one in four women...

Mean Girls Outgrow Bitchy .... Usually

Cooperation works better in the workplace, adulthood

(Newser) - Alpha "mean girls" from high school turn into get-along "gamma women" by the time they hit their 20s ... in most cases, according to experts. "Relational aggression" involving catty gossip, public digs and humiliating pranks tends to decline with age, with bullying plummeting in college, observers say. College...

Skins Isn't Kiddie Porn, It's Just Lame

Critic: Controversy detracts from bigger problem: 'lack of quality'

(Newser) - First things first: The MTV teen drama Skins doesn't dabble in child pornography, writes Jace Lacob in the Daily Beast. The scene in question featuring a teen boy's naked butt isn't even "remotely sexually suggestive," he writes, and thus doesn't meet the criteria for breaking indecency rules. (See...

MTV's Skins Sees Teens as 'Monsters'
  MTV's Skins Sees 
 Teens as 'Monsters' 
TV review
Jan 18, 2011 3:03 PM CST

MTV's Skins Sees Teens as 'Monsters'

Critics: New drama is heavy on sex and drugs, little else

(Newser) - MTV debuted its new series Skins last night, an American version of a British teen drama rife with sex and drugs. Not everybody's a fan:
  • Richard Lawson, Gawker : It goes even further than the Brit version in pushing the idea that teens are "messy jumbles of extremes with very
...

Japan Frets Over Sexless Teens
Japan Frets Over
Sexless Teens
Jan 14, 2011 6:30 AM CST

Japan Frets Over Sexless Teens

A third of young men not interested in sex, survey finds

(Newser) - Japanese people just aren't having enough sex, laments the head of the country's family planning association. A full 36% of Japanese men aged 16 to 19 say they're uninterested in or averse to sex, according to a recent survey. That's 19% more than just two years ago, and some 59%...

Justin Bieber Is Dangerous for Teen Girls
Justin Bieber Is
Dangerous for Teen Girls
OPINION
Jan 6, 2011 1:31 PM CST

Justin Bieber Is Dangerous for Teen Girls

Psychiatrist: His 'media machine' creates the illusion of intimacy

(Newser) - Teenage girls are a little too emotionally invested in Justin Bieber, warns psychiatrist Alan Ravitz for the Child Mind Institute . Don't believe him? Check out some of the hysterical tweets that emerged after photos surfaced of Bieber with singer Selena Gomez, which include everything from slurs to threats of suicide...

Girls Attack Pregnant Teen on Seattle Bus

'Shocking' video helps catch attackers

(Newser) - Five girls ages 14 to 19 attacked a pregnant teen and her boyfriend on a packed Seattle bus—and no one jumped in to help, ABC News reports. A disturbing security video helped police find the perpetrators of the November incident, who can be seen kicking the boy's head and...

Parents Group to TV Shows: Stop Sexualizing Teen Girls

Parents Television Council Says Underage Girls Are Raunchy Punchlines

(Newser) - A parents' watchdog group says primetime TV shows are obsessed with turning teenage girls into sex objects, reports the Hollywood Reporter . "They can tone it down," says the president of the Parents Television Council. The group looked at the most popular shows on broadcast TV (cable got a...

Teens Picking Pot Over Cigarettes
Teens Picking Pot
Over Cigarettes
for first time since 1981
Dec 15, 2010 10:32 AM CST

Teens Picking Pot Over Cigarettes

Drug czar blames Prop 19, medical marijuana for rise

(Newser) - Marijuana use is up again among teens, rising for the first time in nearly a decade—and President Obama’s drug czar blames California’s legalization measure Proposition 19 , among other things. A new government survey found that 21.4% of high school seniors said they smoked pot in the...

Bullied Teen, 14, Steps in Front of Tractor-Trailer

Pa. boy Brandon Bitner is the latest victim of torment to kill self

(Newser) - A 14-year-old boy stepped in front of a tractor-trailer in central Pennsylvania last week, and became the latest victim of school bullying to turn to suicide, the Patriot-News reports. Brandon Bitner, who had a close group of friends and a passion for the violin, wrote in his suicide note that...

Oral Sex Leads To Intercourse In Teens

 For Teens, Oral Sex 
 Leads to Intercourse 
study says
Nov 1, 2010 8:56 PM CDT

For Teens, Oral Sex Leads to Intercourse

Study finds that most teens have sex within 6 months of having oral sex

(Newser) - Teens who engage in oral sex have a much higher chance of having intercourse while in high school compared to teens who refrain from oral sex, according to a new study that followed 600 students over the course of three years. It found that teens who have oral sex by...

Suspicious of Your Teen? Hire a Drug-Sniffing Dog

Highly-trained pups for rent in Maryland

(Newser) - If you’re suspicious your red-eyed teen might be experimenting with illicit substances, there’s a new and easy way to find out for sure: Hire your own, personal drug-sniffing dog. Dogs Finding Drugs, a Maryland-based operation, will send a highly-trained canine to your house to determine in moments whether...

Does Twilight Hurt Teen Brains?
 Does Twilight Hurt 
 Teen Brains? 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Sep 18, 2010 1:10 PM CDT

Does Twilight Hurt Teen Brains?

Conference exploring vampire novels' pull on young minds

(Newser) - A bunch of Twilight aficionados got together last week, but there were no squeals or Edward-induced fainting spells. Rather, a group of scientists, educators and authors met at Cambridge to explore how the vampire craze exemplified by the Twilight series may be shaping young minds, notes MSNBC . Sample session: "...

It's Time Parents Accept Teen Sex

The Dutch do, with good results

(Newser) - When it comes to teen sex, "we need to be paying attention to the Netherlands," writes Tracy Clark-Flory on Salon . Unlike American parents who typically demonize pre-marital sex, Dutch parents commonly allow their teenagers—male and female alike—to have sleepovers with significant others, a new study finds....

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