Adolescence

Tween booted off Facebook starts his own social network

Too young for Facebook, an 11-year-old takes the Internet into his own hands. The rest is Web history

Katie Mcdonough Topics: teens, Adolescence, Facebook, social networking, Internet

A new study shows Gardasil doesn't affect sexual behavior. But why should that matter anyway?

Mary Elizabeth Williams 10 Topics: Gardasil, Tweens, Adolescence, HPV, Parenting, Motherhood, Sex Education, Sex, Vaccination

As a young child, I loved listening to angst-fueled tunes. It would be decades before I could fully appreciate them

Janet Steen, The Weeklings 28 Topics: The Weeklings, Music, Nostalgia, Adolescence, The Beatles

An astonishing new campaign from the tanning industry finger-points at -- believe it or not -- doctors

Mary Elizabeth Williams 34 Topics: Cancer, tanning, Adolescence, melanoma

Technology has transformed the process of growing up. An expert explains how to help girls in their "drama years"

Mary Elizabeth Williams 11 Topics: Parenting, Adolescence, Education

Facts and the real world hardly exist in Caitlin Flanagan's"Girl Land," where gauzy, phony nostalgia reigns

Irin Carmon 80 Topics: Girls, Adolescence, Caitlin Flanagan, Books, Katie Roiphe