Winter 2012 Teens in Turmoil Issue
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Just Say No - Teens, Parents Speak Out About Alcohol, Drugs and Peer Pressure
By Kara Schweiss
Thirteen-year-old Kenzie Guddendorf, a middle-schooler, stays away from alcohol and drugs mostly because she fears the immediate aftermath. "I know that it would be bad and that it would hurt me," she says. "You can get in really big trouble and have to deal with the consequences, the cops and everything."
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Media-Go-Round - Teaching Teen Girls to be Savvy in Distinguishing Media from Reality
By Sarah Wengert
Media has long been a factor and influence in the lives of women and girls,but with an increasingly heightened and pervasive media - the ever-brisker 24-hour news cycle, the dominance of reality television and the prevalence of the still fairly young sphere of social media - is the effect of these many forms of media also expanding?
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Community Support - Programs for Girls of All Ages Encourage Leadership and Positive Life Choices
By Sherry Thompson
Being a teenager isn't easy in today's world. Girls face a myriad of challenges, including media portrayal of young women, self-esteem issues, bullying, stress from school and peer pressure. Drugs, alcohol, gangs, sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy are other issues many girls struggle with.
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Getting Personal - Teaching Teens to Avoid, Deal with Bullying and Dating Violence
By Kara Schweiss
Abusive, bullying behavior takes many forms. It can be a humiliating and malicious rumor circulating via text message among the student body, a possessive teenage boyfriend isolating a girl from her friends and family or a physical assault.
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Editor's Letter
Tough Times with Today's Teens
Health and Wellness
Infertility Treatment Takes Different Routes
Diversity and Justice
Gifted Black Girls Invited to Conference
Women At Work
World Champs Twirl into Fame
Noteworthy News
Sun Sets on Uta Halee Girls Village
Women's Fund Corner
Recycled Rides, Circles Group, New Board Members
Last Laugh
Weather Is Factor in College Hunt
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