The Challenges Faced By First Generation College Students
Across the country, colleges are increasingly implementing programs designed to help first generation students stay in school and reach graduation. Traditionally, these students have not received any special assistance from the colleges...
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Addicts Too Broke To Seek Treatment Will Love This Good News
A 2008 study conducted by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimated that there are 20.8 million addicts over the age of 12 in the US who do not seek treatment. This number is rising. Of the total number of untreated...
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An Innovative New Campaign To Discourage Teen Boys From...
In a new program designed to encourage teenagers to understand the potential consequences of sex, a number of billboards which depict pregnant teenage boys have been placed around Chicago. While many people view these billboards as...
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Should Parents Monitor Their Teens Online?
A question that has increasingly come up for parents in recent years is how involved should I be in monitoring the time my teen spends online? There are many reasons that a parent may wish to monitor their teen's online activity, but it...
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Marvel Comics New Superhero Will Be A Teenage Muslim Girl
In a move meant to reach out to new audiences, Marvel Comics has announced that they will be releasing a new superhero. This wouldn't be particularly newsworthy if it wasn't for the specific details they've released about the new...
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Are PG-13 Movies Exposing Children To Adult Themes
It's no secret to anyone attending the movies regularly that PG-13 doesn't mean what it once did. In the past, this rating would have suggested that a movie had mild adult content at most and wouldn't expose a young teen to anything very...
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My Teen Is Constantly Making Stupid Decisions
When my daughter turned 15, it seemed like she completely lost the ability to make rational decisions. For the next 4 years, she continually made ill-considered and frankly stupid decisions that landed her in bad situation. There were...
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Is Rule Of Law Still Important Or Is Wealth All That...
Most Americans already understand how much of an influence wealth has over our society. Because we have embraced capitalism to such a high degree, many are completely comfortable with corporations and wealthy individuals having undue...
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4 Tips To Help Deal With The Holiday Blues
In recent years, it has come to the attention of a number of psychologists that there is a distinct mental health pattern of increased stress and depression around the holidays. There are a number of possible reasons for this, varying...
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