Teenage pregnancy
Sex education and improved access to contraception has reduced the rate of teenage pregnancy. Currently, just five per cent of Australian children are born to women aged 19 years and under. Teenage women have a higher complication rate during ... [... more]
Better Health |
Modular Home Extension
The owners' cottage has served them well over the past 20 years, but with two teenage children, it's beginning to feel a bit cramped. They have decided to build an extra 4.8m x 6m extension onto the home which will be used as a TV lounge and ... [... more]
NineMSN OurHouse |
Teenage depression
Young people go through many different feelings and moods as they're growing up and parents are often unsure about whether this is normal or whether they should do something. Young people can feel depressed for all sorts of reasons and their ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Teenage parents
There are lots of good things about being a young parent but there can also be extra stresses and problems. There are times when you might still feel you would like to have someone to take care of you. There will be other times when you want to ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Adoption
Finding out you were adopted may be a hard thing to come to terms with. When you find out in later life, like in your teenage years, it can be even harder. It might feel like everything in your life has changed and you donâEURt know your place ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Asthma in adolescence
Asthma in adolescence is common: up to one in 7 adolescents have wheezing some of the time. Asthma may start during the teenage years, or it may continue from a younger age. Because the teenage years are times of great changes for young people, ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Meningococcal C immunisation
Immunisation is one of those health areas that can be neglected by adolescents and young people. Maybe you thought it was all over and done with by the time you hit the teenage years. Wrong! It is important to know when you need to be immunised. ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Teenage health
The pressures and challenges faced by young people include negotiating sex and making choices about social and illicit drug use. Alcohol and cigarettes are the most common drugs used by teenagers. Young men are more likely than young women to ... [... more]
Better Health |
Growing pains
Growing pains are real and can affect children when they are three to five years old. They may continue to affect them into early adolescence or teenage years. Pains may be muscular pains in the legs, often the calf, and often is worse in the ... [... more]
Better Health |
Alcohol - teenagers
Alcohol or booze is widely used by teenagers. Binge drinking, drink driving and unsafe sex can all result from the misuse of alcohol. Alcohol is responsible for most drug-related deaths in the teenage population. Alcohol is widely used by ... [... more]
Better Health |
Karen Foxlee
Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister, Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers. As she recounts the final months of Beth's life, ... [... more]
Random House |
David Van Etten
MALLORY IS A teenage girl living in L.A. and her mother is the oftnominated, never-winning star of a daytime soap; she is, in fact, the ultimate drama queen. After yet another blow-out about her mother's awful plotlines and overacting, Mallory ... [... more]
Random House |
