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This is an entirely  hypothetical scenario, because my daughter is only 12, and I’m not planning on her dating for at least another fifteen or twenty years, if not more.  However, the sad fact is that, contrary to my entirely reasonable wishes, the dating scene is going to start in three or four years — [...]

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England has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe.  The British government, faced with this problem, decided to act.  Now, it might have acted by pushing abstinence and seeking ways to encourage intact families.  Concerned, though, that this would have been just too Victorian and moralistic, the British government opted for a different approach:  it [...]

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In my Friday Open Thread, I promised that I’d blog about Zac Efron.  First off, let me clear the air here and explain that I haven’t developed some pathetic “middle-aged woman/teenage boy” obsession with him (although he does bear an uncanny resemblance, girlish hair and all, to the teen idols of my youth).  What makes [...]

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The CDC did a study about teen sexuality. Here’s how The Telegraph, a leading British news paper spun it: American teenagers are having less sex, doing fewer drugs and drinking less alcohol than those who grew up in the 1990s, according to a new study. Amid growing concern about teenage behaviour in Britain, the report [...]

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One of the things the feminists insist upon is absolute equality, whether that means depriving men of the opportunity to participate in college sports simply because there aren’t enough women to create parity, something that’s now being done in the sciences as well; or allowing women to engage in sexual activity as if they were [...]

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