It's a cliche but I've had a full-circle moment. I've gone from a girl who saw her mom being beaten and her father being arrested and who couldn't sleep with the lights off until a few years ago, to the mother of a son who lives in a safe, healthy...

The wave of shocking suicides by young adults, teens and tweens, who were allegedly being bullied and sexually harassed, have many parents, schools and communities reeling about how to stop the tide.

When a rash of troubling behavior and tragic outcomes, like this hits, it's natural for parents, role models...

A brutal fight among girls is caught on video and posted on Facebook. Meanwhile a teen boy is murdered in Chicago and President Obama responds.

If you're scratching your head in disgust about this level of violence among teens--and the online "bragging rights" that follow--good. Now is not...

My first memory in life is of my mother holding me up as a human shield to get my dad to stop beating her. I was just 2-years-old. I later learned that both of my parents grew up in homes where domestic violence was the norm. Now my goal is...

Teen pregnancy is on the rise: 3 out 10 girls get pregnant. And MTV's popular 16 and Pregnant is showing a lot of the struggles that come with the territory. Plus, more than 1/3 of all unplanned pregnancies occur to unmarried women in their 20s. And then there is the...

Oh, self-care. For many of us that term means "me time." You know: spa days, a good book, bubble baths, yoga, and all that jazz. Self-care is often a list in a magazine of things to surround yourself with that tend to smell fruity or can come down to a...

Last week I walked into the Santa Clara Convention Center for an event that didn't include the usual fare of high-tech company exhibit booths and Powerpoint keynotes. Rather, I walked into a wave of girl anthem and hip-hop beats and a swarm of hundreds...

I'm often asked how I wound up co-writing a book for teen girls about how to boost their self-respect and spread respect for all. The short answer is: I grew up and lived to tell about it. The slightly more in-depth answer is my mother survived girlhood first, found...