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Puberty Defined
A time in life when a girl is becoming a woman and a boy is becoming a man. Puberty is marked by physical changes of the body such as breast development and menstruation in girls and facial hair growth and ejaculation in boys.
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Sex scandal rocks kids' home
Published September 7, 2008, 11:26 pm, Pretoria News
The Aryan Benevolent Home has been hit by a scandal after a house master discovered two children, aged 12 and 14, having sex in the yard of the Chatsworth children's home.
Spotlight: Teen pregnancy
Published September 7, 2008, 9:27 pm, Asheville Citizen-Times
ASHEVILLE – Teen pregnancy has been on the pop culture radar with the release of last year’s “Juno,” an Oscar-winning flick focused on a pregnant teen, and with the teen queen Jamie Lynn Spears, 17, giving birth in June.
Male Gynecomastia
Published September 7, 2008, 9:14 pm, Erie Times-News
1. Definition: This condition -- abnormally large, firm breasts on males -- is relatively common and could be mistaken for excess chest fat.
Unwed teen mothers nothing new, but acceptance is
Published September 7, 2008, 3:49 pm, Galveston County Daily News
Unmarried pregnant teenage girls today are finding a greater acceptance than in previous decades, especially from their peers.
Sex and the sari
Published September 7, 2008, 1:01 pm, Times Online
In March I travelled to coastal Andhra Pradesh, to the delta region of the Godavari river. On the streets of a village we drove through, I noticed an overabundance of beds. Beds being delivered, new old beds, makeshift stage set beds, cheap beds being varnished in the sun, mattresses in the dust.
Camp near Reading barely a refuge for 'naturists'
Published September 6, 2008, 10:55 am, Centre Daily Times
Hidden in woods among the hilly, green farmland of southern Berks County is a place that hundreds of people think of as a sanctuary.
Memoirs of G-d"s Ex
Published September 4, 2008, 5:09 am, The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
I have heard that arriving in Israel brings with it a sense of immediate spirituality. However, those chills of being in presence of something greater than you were somewhat absent when my plane landed. After a 15 hour flight and a baggage strike (apparently Israelis do this all of the time?)
Ghana: Slavery Not Yet a Closed Chapter
Published September 3, 2008, 11:11 am, AllAfrica.com
Who would have thought that history would be able to invisibly repeat itself in this modern busy world? Is it always said that the past is gone and that there is the need to think of what the future pertains, since there is the belief that the future stands on its own, and has to be faced alone.
Dr. Meg Meeker: Gov. Palin's Success with Sex Education: Is It Really Any Different from Any of Ours?
Published September 2, 2008, 4:32 pm, HuffingtonPost
We can no longer wait and wonder, look to teachers in our school to bend our daughter's ears about whether to use birth control or abstain altogether.
Self help groups: September 2, 2008
Published September 2, 2008, 12:52 pm, Naples Daily News
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Sun Sep 7
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Tue Sep 2
- Teenage years and puberty for the Aspie: Here?s this article: Question My son is now 13, he was diagnosed at the age of 8. All of a sudden he is acting out, cussing all the time, lying, etc. Are these years the hardest, or is this just the beginning? When he finally hits puberty, will things get better? Answer Yes, the teen years are the hardest, whether your son has Asperger?s Syndrome or
Thu Aug 28
- All About Menstruation
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Puberty
- A Guy's Guide to Body Image
- Check out the precocious puberty webpage
Wed Aug 27
- It's My Life . Body . Puberty . Whole Lotta Changin' Goin' On | PBS Kids GO!
- More girls experience early puberty [Jennifer Haupt, CNN - 3/31/00]
- Girl, You'll Be a Woman Too Soon: Ecologist Sandra Steingraber explores the eco-causes of early puberty [Grist - 9/26/07]
Mon Aug 25
- Kerplunk - Common sense from Down Under: Women's athletics records are slower than 15 year old boys': elite female athletes lose to high school male athletes.
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