How pressures of online life undermine teenage girls’ self-esteem
Middle-school girls who value sex appeal differ from their peers in troubling ways
Numerical values: For the first time ever your children can determine their “worth” using actual numbers provided by their peers!
I’ve tried to teach my daughter size doesn’t matter. She’s perfect EXACTLY the way God made her
Is getting sexy the only way to assert your womanhood?
Here is our list of the top needs of teen girls
Likes take on an entirely different meaning for teens in at least 4 surprising ways…
Researchers wanted to know how teens’ perceptions of their peers’ sexual behaviors and attitudes influenced their own decisions about having sex
Majority of self-conscious teens want to improve their chances of fitting in and boosting their confidence by changing their appearance
If self-worth is based on what is hot, how can we help them develop a healthier self-image?
6 hours a day “It’s really like a therapeutic release. All that social anxiety I felt in school just went away because…..
We often think empathy is complicated. It is not. All it takes is caring about what people we care about, care about
“If that’s the case, the Great Recession may produce a cohort of less self-focused young adults,”
Their audience are children and those children are being raised to believe their value is in how pretty they are and how…
Our culture has literally grown numb to the growing sexualization of our girls
When we sanction messages like “Girls Rule. Boys Drool.” we affirm a false message about what it means to be made in…
It was concluded that the Internet represents a potent sociocultural force among preteenage girls
“Don’t text and drive until you’ve learned how to juggle straight razors nude.”
911…”Hi, I just stabbed someone, please pick me up and come kill me, I want to end my life.” …nobody loves me
Rice hopes the campaign will provide a corrective lens for how women perceive certain images
For all youth across America…Words can hurt but how you handle the words makes all the difference
In a way, it’s as though Jada’s been assaulted twice, both inside the house and online
Building Identity, Significance and Purpose into Students
The truth is, teens overwhelmingly equate tans with attractiveness.”I feel more confident with a tan,”
“pseudomature” behavior was an even stronger predictor of problems with alcohol and drugs than levels of drug use in early adolescence
Pseudo-mature behaviors in early adolescence predicts “significant difficulties in social functioning” up to 10 years later
Belonging to the cool crowd is associated with higher rates of drinking, drug use, sexual activity
Instead of asking me what’s next, ask me what’s now. Ask me what God is teaching me, ask me..
Beauty is just as much about the spiritual condition as it is about our physical bodies
53% of teen girls feel that photos of themselves posted by others can make them feel bad
The biggest drop in happiness is at age 11. Girls continue to get more unhappy until about 16
Social media is an identity fitting room for teens. It allows them to fabricate themselves and test out different persona’s as they…
The designs put pressure on parents by attracting young girls to the notion of growing up too fast
Popular kid’s chance of being bullied increases by more than 25 percent
“They just said things. They’d ride him and ride him, and today was the day that he snapped.”
They apply no morality to any of this, beyond the gross immorality of judgement and the intrinsic good of tolerance and autonomy
Leneita Fix: Real people are created in the image of our Risen Savior- not on a computer screen
I finally realised I was never going to take a picture that made the craving go away and that was when I…
“Join the anti-revolution and stop taking pictures of yourself.”
58% of doctors surveyed said they’d seen an increase number of patients under 30 requesting plastic surgery
She has first year at Duke paid for
When they were younger, fame carried more weight, and as they have aged it has become less appealing
Swimsuit models with chunks of their thighs, buttocks and arms missing appeared on Target’s website
Product placement at its worst the Barbie patch would transform these girls into walking advertisements
“I was mad. I was angry. The mama bear comes out and you want to get to the bottom of it,” the…
How do you protect and guide your daughters through culture?
A 13-year-old Miami girl became one of the countless children to fall prey to a sex trafficking scheme
What happen when the traditional teenage quest for identity and connection occurs online?
Watch these women’s surprising reactions to seeing themselves photoshopped like supermodels
Feminists have long taken an issue with Barbie – and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit
A way to control how we are seen and by whom
Embracing a more realistic image of girls..will now be an integral part of the brand’s strategy
100% of the images you see of models and celebrities are altered
Our study suggests that being the first girl in the class to need a bra, for example,prompts..
“Candie’s isn’t selling clothes, it’s selling sex and teaching young girls to act seductively,”
Schellenschlager weighs only about 119 pounds, but can deadlift 300
“Making a morbidly obese Barbie is BAD!!”
Brooklyn Lindsey & Mark Oestreicher
It’s hard to generalize about teenage impulsivity, because some adolescents clearly have more self-control than many adults
How can a young girl possibly measure up?
Educator slammed after telling students they dress like ‘hoes’
cultural shift: so many women (aged 16–44) to admit to same-sex activity
French child psychiatrists, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes
Weighing your child does is teach him or her that scales measure success, self-worth and parental and personal pride
The essence of natural beauty in popular American culture is replaced by fantasy
Young teens, girls age 11-14 sending sexually explicit photos on the rise
Snapchat Sees More Daily Photos Than Facebook
…this might make them more likely to commit crimes
With kids your life will never be the same
Parents said pop acts were teaching girls they would be “judged on their looks, not their achievements or personality”
Woman to hand out ‘obese letters’ to overweight children on Halloween
‘You sit behind a computer screen objectifying my body, judging it and insulting it, without even knowing it.’
Halloween is the one day a year when a girl can dress up like a total slut…..
“Ugly or Pretty” videos on YouTube
Teens’ Problems With Provocative Behaviors
It took going to eight different surgeons before anyone operate on me as everyone thought I was crazy
He routinely and faithfully pronounced me beautiful regardless of all objective external measures
This is a perfect recipe for the development of an eating disorder and accompanying depression
Late-starting daters, while also out of step with peers, appeared to have no apparent social or emotional difficulties
“lying on the floor of a bathroom, fighting suicidal thoughts.”
97 percent of teenagers know that texting while driving is dangerous, 43 percent of them do it anyway
I am more aware now more than ever before in my ministry how little parents know about what’s happening
Elizarova says more needs to be done to protect vulnerable teenage girls in the fashion industry