Teen Plastic Surgery on the Rise
The rate at which teenage bodies are getting altered by elective surgery is astounding.
The rate at which teenage bodies are getting altered by elective surgery is astounding.
You might have seen the headline this week, as it’s been circulating heavily around social media conversations
Research has been documenting a drop in the age of the onset of puberty, in particular for girls.
The latest report shows less than half of teens having sex.
Recently the CDC released a report on “Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance” (sounds top-secret, doesn’t it?) focused on teen sexual health. The report zeroes in on 9th-12th-graders who identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual.
Christian kids may hold with a high view of marriage, but that view has very weak legs when it tries to walk out dating relationships.
One of my life mantras is that balance is something we swing through on our way to the other extreme.
You may have seen late last week that the National Center for Health Statistics reported a drop in teen and young adult sexual contact.
While much of Peggy Orenstein’s Cinderella Ate My Daughter is more of a bunch of reminders of ideas/principles I’ve already thought about, she did open my eyes to the odd younger and older pressures that girls are facing.
So I’m reading Peggy Orenstein’s Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture and am starting to see particular girl toys with new eyes, both as a parent and a youth leader.