How to help your kid be happy and secure in a media-heavy, appearance-obsessed culture

Ben Lear’s film asks vital questions about humane treatment when it comes to legislation regarding incarceration

Radha Mitchell spoke to Salon about her aquatic "Blueback" costar, doing her own diving and a dream about a dolphin

She's a Mouseketeer trafficking kiddie porn, a school-girl queen selling sex in a leathery cat suit. Does Britney Spears have any idea what she's doing?

In this remarkable memoir, a former '70s teen "slut" looks back on the mysteries of adolescent sex and the female quest for freedom.

A bunch of teens crash-landed and are stranded in the wilderness? May as well throw a rager!

When a child demands to live as the opposite sex, parents face a controversial decision.

Should little girls be encouraged to "embrace their inner princesses" or to fight against them? Readers discuss the princess obsession.

The marketers for "The Last Exorcism" take to Chat Roulette to spook unsuspecting guys. Funny or cruel?

A British books teaches boys how to do fun bad stuff. So what are we girls, chopped liver?

Why can my 50-year-old boyfriend only speak about sex like a 12-year-old?

A Variety critic takes Sarah Silverman to task for being "as dirty as the boys"

A new feminist handbook explores how "movements like feminism that are seen as no fun" can coexist with hip-hop

With love and irritation, a professor remembers the books she grew up with -- and away from.

Director Catherine Hardwicke collaborated with a teenage girl to accurately convey the gritty realities of American youth. The result goes down like medicine.