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For Generation 'Look at Me,' Every Moment Is Public

Mar 16, 2008 1:21 PM CDT

For Generation 'Look at Me,' Every Moment Is Public

But pitfalls lie amid flurry of documenting

(Newser) - They’re known as millennials, the documentation generation, and the Look at Me’s. But what defines Americans born after 1982 is a mindset that every moment can be turned into a performance worthy of YouTube and MySpace and maybe parlayed into broader fame, Newsweek reports. Now sociologists are asking:...

Brit Furor Over Asylum for
Gay Iranian

Mar 15, 2008 10:45 AM CDT

Brit Furor Over Asylum for Gay Iranian

Teen says boyfriend was killed; calls gay treatment 'genocide'

(Newser) - A gay teenager who fears the death penalty at home in Iran, after his boyfriend was hanged for sodomy, is fighting for the right to stay in the UK permanently, the Independent reports. Mehdi Kazemi, 19, lost his asylum claim in Britain and is now in a detention center in...

Film Biz
Goes Bananas
Over Hannah

Mar 12, 2008 10:13 PM CDT

Film Biz Goes Bananas Over Hannah

Tween star's 3-D concert success may bring similar ventures

(Newser) - Film execs looking to inject life into the dormant sphere of alternative content—showing concerts, sporting events, etc., in theaters—are turning their eyes toward teen star Miley Cyrus and her cash-cow alter ego, Hannah Montana. Cyrus dominated conversation today at an industry conference because her enormously popular 3-D concert...

One-Quarter
of Teen Girls Have STDs

Mar 11, 2008 4:00 PM CDT

One-Quarter of Teen Girls Have STDs

Most common infection is HPV, which can cause cervical cancer

(Newser) - At least one in four teen girls in the US—that's over three million people—has a sexually transmitted disease, a new CDC study shows. By far the most common infection is the human papillomavirus, which can cause cervical cancer, the AP reports. An STD expert calls the new figures...

Texas Teen Planned Family's Murder for a Month: Cops

Mar 4, 2008 11:25 AM CST

Texas Teen Planned Family's Murder for a Month: Cops

Daughter and friends allegedly shot parents, stabbed brothers with 'sword'

(Newser) - The 16-year-old Texas girl charged with killing her mother and brothers didn't decide to murder her family on a whim. Erin Caffey and her boyfriend discussed the homicide “for about a month,” according to police reports. Caffey waited outside in a car while the boyfriend and an accomplice...

Texas Girl Charged With Killing Family

Mar 2, 2008 7:39 PM CST

Texas Girl Charged With Killing Family

Dad survives predawn attack sparked by foiled romance, cops say

(Newser) - A 16-year-old Texas girl and three friends allegedly killed her mother and two brothers and set the family home on fire because her parents objected to her boyfriend, the AP reports. The suspects face capital murder charges in yesterday's attack, which the girl's father survived. Shot five times, he crawled...

Teens Brake on Driving at 16

Feb 25, 2008 4:24 PM CST

Teens Brake on Driving at 16

Rising costs, tighter laws make many aspiring motorists wait longer for licenses

(Newser) - Turning 16 has long been a rite of passage, but many teens are holding off on that first ticket to freedom: the driver's license. The percentage of 16-year-olds licensed nationwide fell from 43.8% in 1998 to 29.8% in 2006, the New York Times reports. States are tightening underage...

Girl Gangs Clash in Paris

Feb 23, 2008 2:20 PM CST

Girl Gangs Clash in Paris

Cops shocked by girl gangs fighting with knives, tear gas

(Newser) - Paris cops recently broke up a suburban street-fight between rival gangs—but this time the gangsters were girls, the Times of London reports. "They had knives, screwdrivers, sticks and teargas and they were really going for each other," one officer said. Girl violence has spiked 140% in France...

Bueller, Er, Bartlett Is a Pill

NEW RELEASE

Feb 22, 2008 12:06 PM CST

Bueller, Er, Bartlett Is a Pill

Charlie Bartlett takes a sophisticated approach to the old teen movie

(Newser) - Charlie Bartlett, about a charming but troubled high school student who dispenses advice and prescription medication to his classmates, is being given mostly passing grades by critics. Sure, the teen film hits the expected themes of "angst, alienation, loneliness, disenchantment, and drug use," writes the Hollywood Reporter's Kirk...

17th Youth Dies in Welsh 'Suicide Borough'

Feb 20, 2008 10:15 AM CST

17th Youth Dies in Welsh 'Suicide Borough'

Authorities perplexed, send experts to schools

(Newser) - A 16-year-old schoolgirl found hanged in the woods yesterday became the 17th youth suicide in the area of Bridgend, Wales, since early 2007. The rash of suicides has focused intense scrutiny on the town of 39,000 and its surrounding borough, where baffled police have so far failed to unearth...

Teen Drinkers Mimic Parents

Feb 14, 2008 5:33 PM CST

Teen Drinkers Mimic Parents

Parents' habits have 'multifaceted influence' on children

(Newser) - Parents' drinking habits can influence those of their children, but perhaps not how you might think, a study suggests. While kids are apt to mimic boozing elders, more than one action speaks louder than words: The lax monitoring and harsh punishment that go hand in hand with alcohol abuse can...

Obama Drug Use Minimal: Old Friends

Feb 9, 2008 7:07 AM CST

Obama Drug Use Minimal: Old Friends

Candor about teenage 'bad decisions' may have been overstated

(Newser) - In his memoir Barack Obama makes a rare admission—for a politician—of “some bad decisions” as a teenager, of indulging in drinking and drugs before political activism led him out of apathy. But friends remember an already-focused Obama: an eloquent, poised young intellectual, active against South African apartheid...

Smoking Linked to Suicidal Thoughts

Jan 9, 2008 9:56 PM CST

Smoking Linked to Suicidal Thoughts

Do troubled people smoke, or does it work in reverse?

(Newser) - Young smokers think about suicide at higher rates than non-smokers, researchers have discovered. Nearly 15% of non-smokers reported suicidal thoughts, compared with 20% of casual smokers and 30% of addicted smokers, according to the study in the Journal of Affective Disorders. Researchers could not determine whether smoking was a cause...

Dude, Mom Unloaded My Car

Jan 9, 2008 3:26 PM CST

Dude, Mom Unloaded My Car

Iowa woman very publicly sells teen's ride after finding booze

(Newser) - The "meanest mom on the planet" has unloaded her rule-breaking 19-year-old son's car in a very public Des Moines Register classified ad: "Totally uncool parents who obviously don't love teenage son, selling his car. Only driven for three weeks before snoopy mom who needs to get a life...

Teenagers Kiss Off
S. African Lip-Locking Ban

Jan 6, 2008 9:06 AM CST

Teenagers Kiss Off S. African Lip-Locking Ban

They protest law that forbids smooching kids younger than 16

(Newser) - South African teenagers held a “kiss-in” yesterday to protest a new law that criminalizes romantic physical contact with anyone under 16, the Washington Post reports. The "Kissing Law” is intended to make it easier to prosecute older men sexually involved with younger girls. But the law has outraged...

HPV Shot Extra Painful, Say Patients

Jan 4, 2008 3:54 AM CST

HPV Shot Extra Painful, Say Patients

Docs report patients fainting after stinging injection

(Newser) - Recipients of the new HPV vaccine are reporting that it's more painful than regular vaccines because not only does the needle hurt, but the vaccine itself stings as it's injected. Doctors have reported teenage girls fainting when getting the shot of Gardasil, although that may be in part because teenagers...

Nickelodeon Mulls Teen-Sex Special

Dec 21, 2007 12:21 PM CST

Nickelodeon Mulls Teen-Sex Special

Cable net grapples with response to its biggest star's big revelation

(Newser) - In the fallout surrounding the pregnancy of its biggest star, Jamie Lynn Spears, Nickelodeon may air a special on teen sex as early as next month, People reports. The special’s potential host, Linda Ellerbee, said it could be “a great opportunity for parents at this moment to talk...

Teenagers
Still Addicted
to POTS

Dec 20, 2007 7:39 PM CST

Teenagers Still Addicted to POTS

Net-loving teens use plain old telephone service the most

(Newser) - Internet use among teenagers continues to rise—93% of teens have some sort of access, and 64% contribute some kind of content on a regular basis. But, despite the proliferation of cell phones and a myriad of bleeding-edge choices, the No.1 communications tool for teens remains the land line,...

Teens Kill 7-Year-Old With Mortal Kombat Moves

Dec 20, 2007 3:40 PM CST

Teens Kill 7-Year-Old With Mortal Kombat Moves

Charged with as adults with felony child abuse

(Newser) - A 16-year-old girl and her boyfriend beat to death her little sister while imitating moves from the Mortal Kombat video game, Colorado police say. Heather Trujillo and Lamar Roberts, 17, kicked, punched, and body-slammed 7-year-old Zoe Garcia until she was unconscious, CNN reports. They have been charged as adults with...

Did Jamie Lynn's Beau Break the Law?

Dec 20, 2007 6:13 AM CST

Did Jamie Lynn's Beau Break the Law?

Her pregnancy spurs legal debate on statutory rape laws

(Newser) - The pregnancy of 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears by her 18-year-old boyfriend is sparking renewed debate about the nation's uneven patchwork of statutory rape laws. Teens in some states can be sentenced to jail for having consensual sex with people not much younger than they are. Because prosecution is left to...