Teenagers and Adolescence
The Stories of Teen Punks That Ruled New York In the Late ’70s
The year was 1977, and the first generation of New York City punk and alternative bands had moved on to larger venues and the international touring circuit. The thrash of hardcore was still a few years down the pike. Yet the storied music venues of Manhattan were alive and aloud with excited, underage patrons. They […]
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What Pregnancy and Childbirth Do to the Bodies of Young Girls
After the account a 10-year-old Ohio girl crossing state lines to get an abortion drew national attention last week, some prominent abortion opponents suggested the child should have carried her pregnancy to term. But midwives and doctors who work in countries where pregnancy is common in young adolescent girls say those pushing for very young […]
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Putin Aims to Shape a New Generation of Supporters, Through Schools
Starting in first grade, students across Russia will soon sit through weekly classes featuring war movies and virtual tours through Crimea. They will be given a steady dose of lectures on topics like “the geopolitical situation” and “traditional values.” In addition to a regular flag-raising ceremony, they will be introduced to lessons celebrating Russia’s “rebirth” […]
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In Warsaw Park, Ukraine’s Teen Refugees Hang Out and Hang On
WARSAW — Every afternoon at a park outside a distinctively Stalinesque skyscraper in central Warsaw, scores of Ukrainian teenagers come together. They are young refugees, trying to cope. Many have quit school to drift around Warsaw, rootless, lost even, as young as 14 or 15, smoking cigarettes and swigging cheap beer. They gather under the […]
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FDA Orders Juul to Remove E-Cigarette Products from U.S. Market
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday ordered Juul to stop selling e-cigarettes on the U.S. market, a profoundly damaging blow to a once-popular company whose brand was blamed for the teenage vaping crisis. The order affects all of Juul’s products on the U.S. market, the overwhelming source of the company’s sales. Juul’s sleek vaping […]
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Teens Are Getting Sick From Products With High THC Levels
By the time he reached college, he had been through various addiction treatment programs. He had become so paranoid that he thought the mob was after him and his college was a base for the F.B.I., Ms. Stack said. At one point, after he moved out of his childhood home, he threatened to kill the […]
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FINA Restricts Transgender Women From Competing at Elite Level
That said, there has been relatively little scientific study of elite transgender athletes. And while testosterone’s role in physical strength and stamina is robust, studies have not been able to gauge its precise impact on performance. Last year, World Athletics, the world governing body for track and field, which has imposed strict restrictions on runners […]
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The Battle Over Gender Therapy
And just like that, after four years of painstaking work, Leibowitz, de Vries and the rest of their group were being called out as traitors by peers and the community they sought to care for. “We understood the enormity of the need for these standards from the beginning,” Leibowitz told me. “I’m not sure we […]
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Puberty Starts Earlier Than It Used To. No One Knows Why.
Several factors are most likely contributing at once. And many of these issues disproportionately impact lower-income families, which may partly explain the racial differences in puberty onset in the United States, the researchers said. A new normal? For decades, medical textbooks have defined the stages of puberty using the so-called Tanner Scale, which was based […]
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