December 24, 2010
If a 16-year-old school girl gets pregnant by a 23-year-old professional sports player and later posts naked pictures of his team mates on the internet should she be treated like an abused child or a vengeful calculating adult? The story is a complicated one that has been playing out for a while in Australia between ...
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November 10, 2010
Unhappy young people are more likely to drink and have sex, researchers have found. I think we can all agree that we already knew this. But what this study has done which is different is look specifically at 11- to 14-year-olds. Over 3,500 young people were surveyed about their general well-being, school life, family life, ...
November 3, 2010
Do you remember being just ten years old? Running around in the park, playing with friends after school, starting to get interested in boys and pop bands (my favourite at that age was New Kids on the Block). Sadly, for a little girl in Spain, she will have to give all this up to be a ...
October 19, 2010
A mother has been jailed for prostituting her daughter, forcing her to take illegal drugs, and subjecting her to physical and mental abuse. The girl was only 16 when she started working in a brothel and the mother forged her birth certificate to say she was 18-years-old. The mother will ”serve at least 18 months jail ...
June 25, 2010
Sexually active elementary school children in Massachusetts are being given condoms after counselling and education. This is without their parents’ knowledge and people are up in arms (of course!). But I fail to see the problem. If your kids are sexually active don’t you want them to be able to protect themselves?! Young people, and especially ...
April 23, 2010
Roman Polanski allegedly raped a 13-year-old girl in 1978 in California. He has been under house arrest in Switzerland since September last year. His lawyers wanted the trial to go on without him in America but it has been ruled that he must be extradited.
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September 29, 2009
After the news of his arrest, people are desperate to weigh in on the justice of Polanski’s arrest. The surprise? They don’t see any. Is there any other pedophile that could elicit this much public sympathy? A petition is circling Hollywood for his release and France’s foreign minister has called his arrest “sinister.” Some are ...
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