Are Abortions Becoming Easier For Kids To Get Than French Fries?

By Craig Bannister

September 15, 2011

So, let me get this straight: at the same time liberals are fighting parental notification requirements for minors who want abortions, they want to require parental consent for kids to get French fries?  …..   Is this what we’ve come to in our society: kids aren’t mature enough to decide if they want fries – but, minors are fit to determine whether unborn children growing inside them live or die?

Read here: http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/are-abortions-becoming-easier-kids-get-french-fries

How to Keep Your Kids Safe on Facebook

Even with Facebook’s privacy policy for minors, a child’s personal information is still widely on display. A young person’s Facebook account is just the beginning of their online footprint, and they need to take that fact seriously, since it can affect their reputation today and potentially come into play later in life when they’re applying for college and for jobs.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/206683/how_to_keep_your_kids_safe_on_facebook.html?tk=hp_new

Alcohol, drugs affecting large numbers of teens in Oklahoma Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=19&articleid=20100929_11_A13_CUTLIN890539

According to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, nearly 6 percent of Oklahoma teenagers – or about 20,000 – are in need of treatment for alcohol or drug addiction.  “It’s a pretty widespread issue,” said Sharolyn Wallace, associate professor of human services at TCC and director of the school’s Center for Addiction Prevention

Read more from this Tulsa World article at http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=19&articleid=20100929_11_A13_CUTLIN890539

Experts offer tips to avert teen suicide

“You just don’t wake up and want to die,” said Rudd, a former psychology department chair at Texas Tech University. “There are events in your life that make you more vulnerable.”  Parents should monitor their teens for dramatic changes in sleep, behavior and attitude because “as we’ve heard over and over today, it’s not just one thing,” said Pam Greene, chief nursing officer and senior vice president of patient care services at The Menninger Clinic, a Houston psychiatric hospital.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7228097.html

Parental rights under the jurisdiction of the international community?

Sen. DeMint: Ratifying U.N. Children’s Rights Treaty Would Turn Parental Rights ‘Over to International Community’

“We believe we need to take clear action here in Congress to protect the rights of parents to raise their children,” DeMint said at a Wednesday panel discussion. “This treaty would, in fact, establish a precedent that those rights have been given over to the international community.”

Survey: Teens Not Concerned About Drinking and Driving

Drinking and driving is never condoned but what happens when a vast majority of the youngest drivers on the road turn a blind eye to this longstanding danger?

Read more: http://wot.motortrend.com/6630850/miscellaneous/survey-teens-not-concerned-about-drinking-and-driving/index.html#ixzz0kj2g78FE

Strong messages: Some say teen texting a threat

Texting, and in some cases “sexting,” sending sexual messages and photos by phone, has quickly become a huge phenomenon.

The Nielsen Co. reported that teens with phones averaged 2,899 text messages a month in the first quarter of 2009, a 566 percent increase in two years. And 79 percent of teens carry phones.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=439&articleid=20100120_18_A1_Areate75490

Teen uses Facebook to rebel against parents’ grounding sentence

… a New York teen is demonstrating how today’s teens can use technology to fight back. Tess Chapin, a 15-year-old from Sunnyside, Queens, was grounded for five weeks and she has staged a revolt against her parents using Facebook. (Why her parents grounded her and didn’t take away Facebook privileges, I don’t know.)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfmoms/detail?entry_id=55543&tsp=1

This Is ‘Your Face On Meth,’ Kids

Sheriff Tom Allen says he has found a way to keep kids off methamphetamine. If they could see what they’d look like after using the highly addictive drug, it might get them to stay away from it forever. With help from some image-altering software, Allen is out to show teens the face of meth.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122872005&ft=1&f=1001

Sexting: Felony because its pornography

http://www.news8.net/news/stories/0509/622596.html

Police say parents and teens need to know that according to the law, sending or receiving nude images of a minor is considered a felony because it’s pornography.

Teen’s new sex lingo

There is a whole new language due to text messaging and the way teens communicate with today’s technology, there are new words related to sex and sexual activity that parents need to know so they can understand their teens and their friends.  Learn teen sex lingo at the Web sites:

http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm; http://www.spyonyourkids.net/spy_on_myspace_lingo_kit.php?gclid=CL6nv-nut5QCFQWVFQod2FwSTQ;

http://www.webmd.com/parenting/guide/glossary-teen-slang.