There seems to be a multitude of studies concerning teenage girls and sexually transmitted diseases lately which would be making me very nervous if I had teenagers right about now. A new study from the Indiana University School of Medicine recently demonstrated that approximately half of teenaged girls contract a sexually transmitted disease within the [...]

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There has been much controversy surrounding the government-funded abstinence-only programs and determining whether or not they have done anything to curb teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Does promoting abstinence to American youth while holding back on teaching about contraceptives inspire them to remain celibate or does it keep them in the dark about the [...]

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I can fondly remember the first day of kindergarten. I had my backpack packed full of school supplies that I had eagerly shopped for with my mother based on the school supply list sent to us over the summer. I remember picking out my two-pocket folders with the fat brown puppies on the front cover [...]

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