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The teen years are a time of changing relationships. One important relationship that changes is between the teenager and his or her doctor.
The focus switches from making sure the children are up to date with their immunizations and hitting all the development milestones to making sure the teenagers are safe and educated.
“During the teen years, [...]

Trying to persuade older children to join a family trip? Joanna Symons suggests 10 breaks that teenagers won’t sneer at.
Parents are not ideal travelling companions as far as older teenagers are concerned, but if you want to keep family holidays going there are certain options that will still pull them in.
Remote cottages or serious culture [...]

We have finally broken free from the corsets of Victorian parenting.  According to a new survey we now put our kids first on holidays – no more ‘seen and not heard’!  In possibly the largest survey of its type, over 7000 UK mothers bared their soul on travelling as a family, letting children have cake [...]

Nancy Sampson peered nervously into the camera and described the terror of having a 15-year-old addicted to street drugs.%26quot;I spent a year while waiting to find treatment for my daughter, waiting for a call that she was dead in a dumpster,%26quot; she told a news conference yesterday.Dona Eull-Schultz clutched a framed baby picture of her [...]

A Manhattan mother leaves her nine-year-old son at Bloomingdale’s with a transit pass, a subway map, $20 and several quarters, and tells him to find his own way home.
Is she a hero for raising an independent kid in an age of mollycoddling, or a neglectful parent who should be reported to Child Protective Services?
Lenore Skenazy [...]

By Matthew Bigg
ALABASTER, Alabama (Reuters) - Underage criminals cannot face the death penalty in the United States but dozens of offenders imprisoned for crimes committed when they were young teenagers will still die behind bars.
The U.S. Supreme Court abolished the death penalty for minors in 2005 but 19 states permit “life-means-life” [...]

“Three Girls and Their Brother” (Shaye Areheart Books)
by Theresa Rebeck
In her first novel, playwright and screenwriter Theresa Rebeck skewers paparazzi culture and our national obsession with the hookups and breakdowns of the young and the beautiful.
In “Three Girls and Their Brother,” three gorgeous redheads are thrown into the celebrity machine when a famous photographer takes [...]

By Matthew Bigg
ALABASTER, Alabama (Reuters) - Underage criminals cannot face the death penalty in the United States but dozens of offenders imprisoned for crimes committed when they were young teenagers will still die behind bars.
The U.S. Supreme Court abolished the death penalty for minors in 2005 but 19 states permit “life-means-life” [...]

By Hy Hollinger
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - “Dr. Suess’ Horton Hears
a Who!” led the foreign box office for a second consecutive
weekend, while “The Spiderwick Chronicles” also played strongly
with the family crowd.
“Horton Hears a Who!” earned $10.8 million from 54 markets
for a foreign total of $90.6 million, according to [...]

The situation has improved greatly since Mr. Dinkins%26#8217;s foray into East New York. Crime has dropped even in places like Cypress Hills, a project of 15 seven-story buildings. In 1991, there were 107 murders recorded in the 75th Precinct, which includes Cypress Hills; last year, there were 33. Residents of Cypress, as many call [...]