Teenage Girls

Confessions From Former Middle-School 'Mean Girls'

Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Girl Bullying, Video, Middle School Bullies, Free Press, Body Image, Teen Girls, Teenage Girls, Whitney Joiner, Middle School, The Drama Years, Girl Talk, Haley-Kilpatrick, Teen News

"Every girl in this school wants to be someone else." - Bridget, 13 Let's face it: For tween girls, middle school can be a total war-zone. Bet...

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The Good News About Treating Eating Disorders

Los Angeles Times | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Mental Illness, Eating Disorders, Teenage Girls, Eating Disorder Treatment, Anorexia, Bulimia, National Eating Disorders Association, Women News

April Dunlap was 17 and weighed 165 pounds when she began a diet and exercise regimen. After three months, the 5-foot-5 teen had lost the 20 pounds sh...

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Why Our Daughters Are Going in 'One Direction' (and Why It's Mother Approved)

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: The Beatles, The Today Show, Women Over 50, One Direction, Life After 50, Barbara Hannah Grufferman, Today Show, Turning 50, Teenage Girls, Parenting, Hoda Kotb, Grandparents, One Direction What Makes You Beautiful, Teenagers, Motherhood, Parents News, Paul McCarnety, Video, Fifty News

I, for one, am thrilled that our girls have the opportunity to experience something close to what iyr generation had with the Beatles.

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Thinspo Blogging Continues On Everyone's Favorite Site: Pinterest

Hayley Krischer | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Thinspo, Anorexia, Body Image, Pinterest, Eating Disorders, Teenage Girls, My Story, Bulimia, Women News

When I was 15, I went through a bulimic episode.

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Wise Words From Our Favorite Rookie

The Huffington Post | Priscilla Frank | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Women's History Month, Role Model, Cadaver, Rookie Magazine, Tavi Sings, The Style Rookie, Tavi Gevinson, Neil Young, Teenage Girls, Feminism, Femininity, Tavi Gevinson Style Rookie, Video, Style, Coming of Age, Fashion, Slidepollajax, Tavi Gevinson Interview, Arts News

Wunderkind Tavi Gevinson started a style blog when she was only 13. Through her electric granny-chic aesthetic and insightful voice on feminism and gr...

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Girl With Autism Finds Refuge In Art

Posted 03.15.2012

Read More: Slidepollajax, Teenage Girls, Autism, Teenage Artists, Amanda Lamunyon, Oklahoma, Young Artists, Video, Cvs, Arts News

Amanda LaMunyon, a talented 16-year-old artist, has Asperger's Syndrome. Instead of being a setback, however, this allows her to concentrate on her pa...

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How 'Girl Talk' Like, Changes The Way We All Speak

The Huffington Post | Marissa Piazzola | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Language Change, Linguistic Research, Teen Girls, Slang, Linguistics, Teenage Girls, Girl Talk, Teen Slang, Video, Teen News

When Beyonce said that girls "run the world," she may not have been referring to the way young women influence language, but she would've been right i...

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Sisters, We've Let Our Daughters Down

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Media, Rape, Sexual Abuse, International Women's Day, Feminism, Teenagers, Sexual Violence, Violence Against Women, Teenage Girls, Sexual Assault, Culture News

How did it happen that so many of our children are going to school, and studying math, and science, and history, and design, and deciding that the best way to get on in the world is to let boys use their bodies?

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Why We Need to Abolish This Word

Tara Sophia Mohr | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Girls, Women, Slut, Rush Limbaugh, Teenage Girls, Sandra Fluke, Prostitutes, Feminism, Women in Leadership, Women News

We can take this moment to let companies know we will not support them if they support this kind of demeaning speech in the media.

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Where Are The Women In Racing?

Julia Landauer | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Girls, Gender Equality, Women, Lyn St. James, Role Models, Marketing, Auto Racing, Teenage Girls, Danica Patrick, Women News

Many people expect (or want) to hear that being a woman at the racetrack is rough and that I face constant sexism.

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Marriage Rocks -- or Does It?

Sherri Edwards | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Marriage, Single Parents, Love and Relationships, Valentine's Day, Teenage Girls, Teen's Views of Marriage, Future Generations, Teenagers, Generation Gap, Parents, Parents News

I also understand marriages can fail. Yet for those of us continuing the soon antiquated practice of marriage, every union has strengths and flaws.

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Not-So-Sweet Seventeen

Hannah Weintraub | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Womens-Media, Teen Girls, Seventeen Magazine, Teenage Girls, Women and Body Image, Seventeen, Womens-Magazines, High School News

I've been disillusioned by Seventeen's pixie dust more times than I would like to admit. The magazine manufactures self-doubt so girls will buy the quick-fix products displayed on their glossy pages.

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Parenting an Almost-Teenager

Jennifer Cullen | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Adolescents, Teenage Girls, Parenting, Teens, Teenagers, Parents, Parents News

Being a parent is hard. Being a parent of a 12-1/2-year-old girl is even harder.

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The Tortoise and the Hair: One Mother's Attempt to Loosen the Reins

Elisa Taub | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Teen Style, Teenage Girls, Parenting Teenagers, Parenting, Parenting Teens, Hair, Teenagers, Parents, Parents News

Intellectually I know that she is expressing herself in a safe and personal way. Like the crazy purple straight legs jeans I used to wear, or the thrift shop clothing my parents never even reacted to. But the truth is, I still wish I hadn't let her dye her hair.

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Facebook, Nice Girls and Self-Worth

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 03.13.2012

Read More: Eating Disorders, Miss Representation, Teenage Girls, Black Girl Project, Facebook, Girls Self-Esteem, Girls Empowerment, Girls Self-Worth, Girls Self-Image, Facebook-Cyberbullying, Girls Cyberbullying, Mean Girls, Parents News

What girls say to each other on Facebook matters more than the possible threat of cyberbullying. It reflects what we teach kids about what's important and has real consequences.

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Teenage Girls Mistakenly Think HPV Vaccine Reduces Risk For All STDs

Posted 01.06.2012

Read More: Hpv, HPV Vaccine, Stds, Video, Hpv Vaccination, Hpv Vaccine Teenage Girls, Safe Sex, Teenage Girls, HPV Vaccine Teens, High School News, Sex Education, Sexually Transmitted Infections, High School News

Although the Human Papillomavirus vaccine may be lowering teens' risk of contracting HPV, as many as one in four teenage girls falsely believes that t...

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New Analysis Reveals Spike In Same-Sex Contact Between Teen Girls

Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Same Sex Contact, Gay Adolescents, U.S. National Survey of Family Growth, Teen Girls Lesbians, Teen Pregnancy, Gays and Lesbians, Teen Girls, Teenage Girls, Gay Voices News

A new analysis of the U.S. National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) has revealed some surprising shifts in the sexual activity of teenage girls over th...

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Girlfriends Over Husbands?

Nancy Deville | Posted 02.13.2012

Read More: Friendship, Loneliness, Friends, Longevity, Fun, Holiday Loneliness, Breast Cancer, Teenage Girls, Heart Disease, Girlfriend Guide, Gossip Girl, Girlfriends, Quality of Life, Women News

"Are you going to get married again, Grandma?" I asked her. "NO!" Her vehemence was startling enough to spark my curiosity, and for the next few years, I observed her and her friends.

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Sexual Harassment In Schools -- Studies Say It's Real

Hayley Krischer | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Teenage Girls, Sexual Harassment, Teens and Sex, Harassment in Schools, The Sex Talk, Harassment, Teens, Parents-Moms, Parents News

I was 14. He was 18. He was a big kid. On the football team. (Can I tell you that he became a cop later in life without you judging cops all together? Just giving you an idea of his confidence.)

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Porn-Addled Teenage Boys Do Rule The World

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Soccer Dads, Media and Gender, Women's Rights, Soccer Moms, Gender Bias, Men and Power, Barbie, Power of Pornography, Gender Bias in Media, Gender and Media, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Teenage Boys, Miss Representation, Girls and Self-Esteem, Teenage Girls, Fear of a Female Planet, Feminism, Teenagers, Gender, Pornography, Gender Bias in Toys, Human Rights, Sexism, Women and Politics, Girls and Depression, Women and Power, Women News

So what if we don't have a female head of state for the next 500 years. Go get a facial. You'll feel better. Develop a hobby. I hear recreational pole dancing is really fun.

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Standing Up to Street Harassment

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 12.29.2011

Here are three things to think about before we continue to tell our daughters to ignore a lifetime of "cat" calls, sexually explicit comments and sexist remarks.

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Generation Y's Wall Street SPO

Amy Goldwasser | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: U.S. Economy, Youth Vote, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Wall Street, Economic Crisis, Protest, Millennials, Occupy Wall Street, Financial Crisis, Twentysomethings, Jobs, Teenage Girls, Generation Y, Voting, Teenagers, College News

My generation needs to admit that we have a problem. Hi, we are Generation Y, and we are overly entitled consumption addicts with expectations that are incongruous with a finite world.

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Do Brothers Stall Their Sisters' Sex Lives?

Jena Pincott | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Psychology, Teenage Girls, Parenting, Pheromones, Sexuality, Family, Sexually Active, Siblings, Women News

The age at which a teenage girl starts to become sexually active depends a lot on her social environment. It especially depends on the family environment. The hidden influence is the younger sibling.

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It's Cool to Skip Lunch

Stephanie Armstrong | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Girls, Eating Disorders, Teenage Girls, Self-Esteem, Girls Body Image, Body Image, Teenagers, Parents News

At a middle school I recently visited, I learned that cool girls skip lunch. Girls complained to me about being famished by dinner time, overeating, and not understanding why. They were fearful of eating in front of their peers.

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Are You Addicted To Gaming?

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Gamers, Yourtake, Felicia Day, Teens, Teenage Girls, Gaming, Video Games, High School News, The Guild, High School News

Everyone's doing it -- or nearly everyone. According to a recent report, a whopping 91 percent of kids and teens between the ages of two and 17 play v...

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