Healthline Blogs
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Parenting Practices Usually Stay Stable
Research reported in Family Relations by Lisa Strohschien (University of Alberta) challenges the notion that parenting practices diminish after divorce. In a large longitudinal study Dr. Strohschien found that divorce did not change parenting beha...
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UN Guide for Sex Education Generates Opposition
The UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) proposed sex education guidelines are stirring up quite the controversy - before they are even published! I will give you one guess who is attacking them - oh come on, g...
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Middle Age Comes To Teens
A recent CDC study has suggested that at least 20 percent of US teens ages 12 to 19 have at least one abnormal lipid level, suggesting they are at risk for heart disease, the leading cause of death among adults in the United States.Data for the re...
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High Blood Pressure Undiagnosed in Children and Teens
The rise in childhood obesity have brought increases in pediatric hypertension. Unfortunately many cases are going undiagnosed among children and adolescents according to a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The stu...
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Understanding Readiness for Treatment in Teens
By the age of 18 about 20% of teens have experienced a depressive disorder which challenges their health, school work, and social relationships. In spite of the fact that counseling and medication can help, many teens do not receive treatment, alt...
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The Line Between Enabling and Supporting
To be healthy teens need to assume responsibility for their lives gradually, as they are emotionally ready for it, but hopefully before they need the skills to live independently. Some of the basic skills they will need include getting up on time,...
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Condom Availability in Schools - or Maybe Homes
Why is such an easy thing so hard? We know that some high school students are having sex; only about 60% of those students use any form of protection during sex; more than 3 million teens a year get a sexually transmitted infection; most unwanted ...
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Thinking About Bullying In A New Way
At last, kids are not being told to ignore bullies anymore, and parents are not saying "kids will be kids!" It is about time that our culture decided that bullying is not a normal part of childhood and that handling it makes us more successful peo...
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Post Holiday Blues?
Feeling a little slow, sad, or irritable during this last few days of the holiday season? Are you paying more attention to the advertisements for anti-depression medication? Do you have a list of things to do that is longer than the the available ...
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Contraceptive Use is Helping to Reduce Adolescent Pregnancy Rates
So sorry to say - it is not abstinence! The January 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health includes an article that reports the declining adolescent pregnancy rates in the United States between 1995 and 2002 were primarily due to impr...
