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Teen Risky Behaviors - Centers for Disease Control Study Results
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control indicates more teen drivers are wearing seatbelts and fewer are drinking while driving, but a third of all high school kids admit that they texted or emailed while driving over the previous 30 days. NBC’s Tom Costello reports. Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy
Steubenville Football & Rape Culture
When at least two football players from Steubenville, OH were found to have raped a teenage girl last August, the team's coaches vehemently denied their players had done anything wrong, blaming the victim. Is it possible that these boys didn't question what they were doing because of the attitudes of their role models in school and society as a whole? Furthermore, can pre-emptively teaching them not to be creepy also teach them not to commit rape?
101 East - Web of Hate
Cyber bullying is something that has evolved with technology. Prank phone calls and mean chain letters have become less necessary when the world wide web provides instant and often anonymous bullying. Children are falling victim to Facebook libel – sometimes taking their own lives to escape. Catherine Bernard committed suicide in February, 2012. She lived in Melbourne, Australia and had suffered severe depression brought on by cyber-bullying. She was not the first victim and she will not be the last. Unless something is done.
