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The Post-Jason Collins World: How Gay Teens Can Define Themselves By Excellence
14January

The Post-Jason Collins World: How Gay Teens Can Define...

For years professional sports have operated under a “don’t ask don’t tell” policy where homosexuality was concerned. A professional athlete has finally taken the courageous step of admitting...

Professional Athletes Make Amazing Role Models For Troubled Boys
14January

Professional Athletes Make Amazing Role Models For...

Troubled boys everywhere can find the role model that they need in professional sports. Professional athletes are hardworking individuals, which in many cases participate in a variety of humanitarian activities. Troubled...

Robin Thicke, Justin Timberlake and the Effects of Misogyny on Teen Girls
14January

Robin Thicke, Justin Timberlake and the Effects of...

Robin Thicke and Justin Timberlake, as well as other popular performers of the times, are pushing the limits of entertainment and exposing teen girls to misogyny in virtually secret ways. Today's...

The Hunger Games Has Surprisingly Awesome Messages For Teens
14January

The Hunger Games Has Surprisingly Awesome Messages For Teens

If you have a child, then the odds are good that you have been hearing a lot about the new Hunger Games movie. This series of books and films has recently become one of the most popular media franchises among today's children. However,...

Teens Get Mixed Messages on Molly From The World
14January

Teens Get Mixed Messages on Molly From The World

By now, you've probably had it explained to you a few times (and maybe a few times too many) what Molly is. But just in case, it's a term that describes the club drug MDMA, which is supposedly a pure form of Ecstasy,...

Alcoholism and Art: Great American Writers and Why They Abused Alcohol
11January

Alcoholism and Art: Great American Writers and Why They...

Image by New Yorker. An interesting piece written by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker, titled “Writers and Rum”. Why did the great literary giants abuse alcohol?  Why did writing and alcoholism go hand-n-hand?  Does it...

Is It Stupid To Buy Drugs From A Drug Dealer? One Would Think So!
11January

Is It Stupid To Buy Drugs From A Drug Dealer? One Would...

An interesting post by Matt Soniak from the “The Week”, titled, “The Secret Logic of Drug Deals”.  It seems that this piece was written to help people who buy drugs avoid getting ripped off or killed (how to...

Kids Suffer From Secondhand Smoke. But How About Secondhand Stress?
11January

Kids Suffer From Secondhand Smoke. But How About...

We all know that children of smokers are susceptible to suffering from the effects of secondhand smoke.  But what about secondhand stress?  Is "secondhand stress" just as bad or worse for children of stressed out parents? Many...

Why is Cocaine Evil?
10January

Why is Cocaine Evil?

Caption Above: Family and friends attend the funerals of three female victims of a massacre that left 13 dead and more than a dozen wounded in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, in 2010. Most of the victims were between 14 and 20 years old and were...