When I started college, I had never been to a party where there were drugs or alcohol. Within the first week, I was rolling a keg down three flights of stairs and watching a friend get it on with a fraternity president while standing in three feet of dish soap...

Every year when I was in high school in Lubbock, Texas, we were herded into the auditorium for a lecture from a local youth pastor about the birds and the bees.

At the culmination of every presentation, the pastor pulled a girl up onstage, produced a dirty, dingy toothbrush from...

The chastity movement has grown up and gone off to college, which is no wonder, really, since legislators recently decided to focus attention and federal money on keeping unmarried adults abstaining until at least their 29th birthday. The members of Harvard's True Love Revolution, a campus chastity club,...

While America is focusing on the evolving drama of the Spitzer sex scandal and the MySpace musical styling of "Kristen," the young woman who he paid for sex, the CDC has announced that one in four American teen girls has a sexually transmitted infection. It's fitting that the...

While Juno is trading a hospital gown for Oscar couture and Jamie Lynn is dodging photographers in Louisiana, the American public is grappling with the new visibility of the teen baby bump and turning back to the media for answers.

Actual teen voices, the only ones that can really...

This month we learned that teen birth rates are on the rise for the first time since 1991.While this alarming statistical shift should inspire concern or anger or action, it has received little more than wary acknowledgment from any of the 2008 presidential hopefuls (on either side of the...