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As they strive to make a name for themselves in showbiz, more and more teens are pressured by their parents or agents into getting plastic surgery. A little over a month ago, singer Charice made headlines after going on the record saying she’d gotten Botox to look her best for her upcoming appearance on the hit... |
10 August 2010
13:41 GMT |
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In a new investigation conducted on Chinese adolescents, experts determined that teens that used the Internet constantly, and for many hours each day, were significantly more likely to be depressed. Two groups of young adults were followed for nine months – one whose members appeared to be addicted to the ... |
3 August 2010
19:11 GMT |
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A team of Spanish investigators has determined in a new study an interesting aspect about the relationship between antisocial behavior and goal or expectations, in teenagers. This is one of the first studies to tackle this sort of issue directly, the team behind the work says. One of the main questions the young adul... |
18 June 2010
08:02 GMT |
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Over the past few decades, a worrying trend was observed, in which children begin drinking very early on, and become very familiar with alcohol, and sometimes even tobacco, by the time they reach high school. For these individuals, German researchers show in a new study, the incidence of migraines and tension-type he... |
7 June 2010
03:47 GMT |
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Though most parents would rather this not be the case, there is no single, clear-cut explanation for why teenagers engage in risky behaviors. According to researchers, a vast number of influences intertwine to promote teen drinking, smoking and drug use, among other habits that are illegal. A new investigation shows ... |
3 May 2010
11:07 GMT |
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that young Americans today resemble their peers living in the 1900s more than they do their parents. The finding may be explained by the fact that we are currently in the middle of an economic downturn, which makes young adults' transition to full-fledged adultho... |
28 April 2010
03:30 GMT |
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According to new data, it would appear that restricting children's access to R-rated movies decreases their chances of trying out alcohol at a very young age. The researchers behind the study say that this is especially true for kids who are still in middle-school, and add that interventions from parents proved ... |
26 April 2010
03:59 GMT |
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Researchers at the Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, have recently determined that playing video games before bedtime has only a mild effect on teens' sleeping habits. The team determined that even 50 minutes of playing “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare” did not influence the onset of s... |
15 April 2010
17:01 GMT |
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Many parents and sociologists argue that the Internet can be used to promote misbehavior and to encourage bad deeds, and examples to support their claims can be readily found. But a recent investigation has determined that adults may have nothing to fear in the case of teens using blogging services. The scientists th... |
26 March 2010
04:14 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific study, it would appear that children and teens today have more in common with their parents than they would at times like to admit. The two generations do indeed differ in some traits, but researchers determined that the youngsters are just as self-centered as they parents... |
18 March 2010
03:39 GMT |
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Scientists have recently determined in a new investigation that children younger than 17 tend to try alcohol at an earlier age if they are exposed to R-rated movies without parental guidance and control. These films generally receive this rating because they portray behaviors that are deemed inadequate to be viewed b... |
13 March 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Any self-respecting tattoo artist will ask his or her customer twice before starting to work on their skin. Given the difficulties associated with removing the ink from under the skin, and the fact that it’s tremendously expensive to do so, people need to make sure that they are always 100 percent convinced the... |
4 March 2010
05:56 GMT |
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Researchers have found in a new study that cigarette ads are extremely fine-tuned to capture the attention of teens. A direct correlation was established between the number of tobacco-related ads teens see, and the chances of them actually taking a puff from a cigarette. Experts say that the main reason why these adv... |
3 March 2010
08:36 GMT |
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Researchers investigating the behavior of 11 to 13 year olds have recently determined that boys and girls of this age understand concepts such as “being mean” in the same way. As they grow older, and reach adulthood, the definitions for similar ideas change between young men and women, with the second gro... |
2 March 2010
10:40 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that children and teens who spend a lot of time in front of the TV or computer screen tend to have difficulties in maintaining good relationships with their parents and friends. In addition, it was also found that, the more time the youngsters spent watching TV, th... |
2 March 2010
03:05 GMT |
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Curious about what teens perceive as grounds for suicide, a scientist has traveled to Australia, Italy and India to find the answer. She was also curios about the values and social significance that teenagers gave to this action, as well as about the attitudes associated with it. The investigator interviewed more tha... |
9 February 2010
14:01 GMT |
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A new scientific study has determined that teenagers who listen to music mentioning the use of marijuana are very likely to actually start smoking the drug. In the experiments that led to this conclusion, more than 959 ninth-graders were followed for a period of time. This allowed the researchers to draw parallels be... |
23 December 2009
04:20 GMT |
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In a recent investigation, it was revealed that only about half of teenagers in the United States that suffered from mental disorders were treated for their conditions. About the same number are subjected to professional counsel or aid, and the situation appears to be deteriorating, experts believe. A new work has no... |
14 December 2009
05:44 GMT |
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In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists at the University of Southern California (USC), working together with colleagues from Sweden, managed to draw amazing correlations between cardiovascular health levels in teenage boys and the likelihood that these individuals would accomplish something later in life. The inves... |
8 December 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Internet addiction is a condition that, when first announced, raised a few eyebrows at best. Over the years, as more and more children and teens became glued to their computer monitors, it became painfully clear that this wasn't something that healthcare experts made up in their own spare time. In a paper presen... |
6 October 2009
16:51 GMT |
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A new legislative initiative circulated by the European Commission (EC) suggests that all newly manufactured mp3 players to be sold in Europe should have a built-in, removable noise limit. The idea is meant to safeguard people from their own bad listening habits, as well as to spare travelers in public transportation... |
29 September 2009
03:57 GMT |
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According to a new investigation funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), it may be that teenagers' diet and eating habits are heavily influenced by their social background. The paper essentially shows that the diet, weight and health of teens is directly influenced by practices and perceptions... |
26 September 2009
21:41 GMT |
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Mental conditions plaguing teenagers are often regarded by adults as being less important and serious than the ones that plague them, although that is not necessarily the case. For quite some time now, experts have been drawing attention to the fact that adolescents are living in a very stressful environment, but the... |
24 September 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Washington in Seattle (UWS) have recently released a new scientific report, showing that rats who consume alcohol when young tend to engage in more risky behavior than their peers, which were not allowed to drink. Scientists have been wondering for a long time if risk-taking is directly c... |
22 September 2009
02:25 GMT |
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A new investigation in some of the United States' most religious regions has revealed that states that are highly religious, and where people are most conservative, tend to have higher teen-pregnancy and birth rates than other areas of the country. The researchers in charge of the paper say that a large number o... |
17 September 2009
02:42 GMT |
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According to a new report published yesterday, it would appear that a large section of the young US population, including children and teens, is overexposed to radiations, a situation that may lead to an increased number of cancer cases once they grow up. The paper shows that Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans, c... |
27 August 2009
04:42 GMT |
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Over the past few years, an alarming rise in couple violence incidence has prompted experts to look for solutions to this serious problem. What is even more concerning is the fact that teen couples have also joined the trend. This means that, later on in life, partners that now abuse or are abused will translate this... |
4 August 2009
15:41 GMT |
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The Archbishop of Westminster said recently in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that the amount of texting and e-mailing that children, teens and adults alike engaged in was “dehumanizing” and dangerous for the society. He argued that constructing friendship relationships exclusively aroun... |
3 August 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Seeking to find a reason why teenagers in the United States engage in such risky behavior as “car surfing,” researchers at the Case Western University School of Medicine, in Cleveland, Ohio, have set out to analyze what drives the young ones to perform true acts of madness. Moving past a simple neurologic... |
21 July 2009
20:51 GMT |
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Statistically speaking, the largest part of the smoking population in the United States is below the age of 25, and most of these kids, oddly enough, want to quit, at some point or another. However, when it comes down to it, they are looking for evidence-based programs, and seem to favor those that can be attended on... |
1 July 2009
06:53 GMT |
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It is highly likely for teens who believe that they will die young to engage in risky behavior, a new research by experts at the University of Minnesota Medical School (UMMS) has found. The investigation, which was led by researcher Iris Borowsky, MD, PhD, comes to show that about one in seven teenagers feels like th... |
29 June 2009
04:14 GMT |
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While scouting the skies with her amateur telescope, 14-year-old New Yorker Caroline Moore discovered a new, junior-sized supernova, and thus became the youngest person in history ever to do so. The new celestial object, dubbed SN 2008ha, is also very peculiar, and may very well represent a new class of stellar explo... |
11 June 2009
04:40 GMT |
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The spread of the obesity pandemic in the young population around the world is very troublesome, researchers say, especially because no one really knows what's causing it. Among the suggestions, too much sedentary time, as in watching TV and using computers all day long, coupled with an inappropriate diet, high ... |
9 June 2009
10:02 GMT |
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A new study published in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior shows that young women in their teens or early twenties who have attended religious schools are more likely than their peers to get an abortion, despite their beliefs. In fact, the research points out, these girls are more likely tha... |
2 June 2009
08:01 GMT |
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The Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC) program is a foster parent-based intervention, which seeks to reduce juvenile crime rates in America's youth. Usually, the children and teens do not want to enlist in the program voluntarily, but are sent there by court order, mandating them to seek out-of-home t... |
1 June 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Everyone knows that, for a small child, the family has the most pregnant influence. The development of infants is most significantly influenced by their parents, so it would stand to reason then that family-based intervention is the way to go, if the adults want to prevent their offspring from engaging in risky behav... |
15 May 2009
10:55 GMT |
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The latest report from the US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that increasing numbers of American teenagers become addicted to nicotine because they cannot easily quit the habit. Despite the fact that they have a very short experience with smoking, they find it very difficult to kick it, and t... |
6 May 2009
09:42 GMT |
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Parents should have a good relationship with their children for a vast number of reasons, and adding to those is the fact that, if they do so, then the children are very likely to start drinking at a much later age than they would otherwise. This is very important, psychologists say, because the older the teen is, th... |
24 April 2009
05:19 GMT |
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Humans, as a society, evolved the tendency to play ever since they first began to come together in large groups. Peter Gray, a developmental psychologist at the Boston College, believes that this happened as people learned to suppress their innate aggressive instincts, which allowed them to form societies. Without an... |
16 April 2009
06:17 GMT |
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Women suffering from severe mental illnesses are more likely to have suffered abuse in their early years of life, as opposed to the general population, during childhood or as teens, a new research presented by experts at King's College London Institute of Psychiatry shows. Published in the April issue of the Bri... |
1 April 2009
05:51 GMT |
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One of the main problems facing the scientific communities in the Western world today is one that shouldn't even exist in any civilized nation – how do we get more young people interested in science? While some argue that talking directly to children in their classrooms may seem like the best idea, others ... |
31 March 2009
09:53 GMT |
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A new long-term study, conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois, shows that teenagers who exhibit greater social skills during their sophomore, and who are also engaged in extra-curricular activities, are far more likely than their peers with similar results in school to do well in their life. In other ... |
26 March 2009
19:01 GMT |
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Scientists believe that they may have finally discovered why teenagers behave the way they do between the ages of 11 and 17. They say that this is the time when their brains literally scan themselves and decide which connections to remove and which to keep. That is to say, during childhood, when the cortex is not ful... |
24 March 2009
04:02 GMT |
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University of Sheffield professor of Human Geography Danny Dorling has written in an editorial published today in the online edition of the British Medical Journal that the best option young people could consider in times of economic crisis is to attend college. In periods of mass-unemployment or when individuals get... |
11 March 2009
11:57 GMT |
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According to new scientific data, the stress of being a teenager, when fights with parents happen almost each day, can stretch far into adulthood, causing health problems later on in life. This effect is somewhat “silenced” by the fond memories of the time, and, of course, some have less arguments with th... |
11 March 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Since, say, the 1980s, the world has suffered a dramatic change in terms of the demands the community has from its members, in regards to the number of hours each individual has to work per day, to earn their keep, or to the total volume of labor that is needed in order for society to function properly. But new studi... |
10 March 2009
10:13 GMT |
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According to an Illinois panel of legislators, youth in the state is currently experiencing great deals of stress, which could lead to an increase in the number of registered suicides. Just recently, three teenagers took their own lives, and the lawmakers are still trying to come to terms with what happened. They say... |
9 March 2009
02:02 GMT |
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According to new study data, teenagers in the US are highly neglected when it comes to their addictions, especially those of drugs and other illicit substances. Researchers show that physicians and psychologists are ill-equipped to handle the underlying problems that lead to teenagers engaging in such behavior, and, ... |
2 March 2009
09:20 GMT |
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Even though the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)'s film-rating system is designed to provide guidelines to parents and their children as to what the contents of a movie may refer to, a new scientific study finds that teens who are allowed to watch R-rated films are more likely to pick up smoking, or ... |
23 February 2009
04:28 GMT |
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The UK has been recently shaken by the news of a 13 year-old boy, Alfie Patten, and his 15 year-old girlfriend, Chantelle Steadman, who have become the parents of a small girl named Masie Roxanne. At the time, most newspapers have focused on the story for a few days, but now new claims come to stir up spirits again &... |
16 February 2009
08:36 GMT |
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