For many parents, Facebook and MySpace are helpful conversation starters, particularly with older teens or young adults.
Targeted support for families experiencing multiple months of deployment, and for older teens and girls should be considered, she said.
Likewise, older teens have a higher pregnancy rate, but that study also counted more than 110, 000 pregnancies among 15- and 16-year-olds in 2008 alone.
For older children and teens, the dog can be a supportive friend and provide an outlet from stress and peer pressure.
Millions of people, many of them older women and younger teens, play FarmVille on Facebook every day.
As teens get older, the talk should focus more on relationships.
Of the roughly 1.2 million U.S. women who have abortions each year, half are 25 or older, about 18 percent are teens, and the rest are 20-24.
Teens: "Older kids are sometimes amused when they guess that their parents have been sexual, but if it's in their faces too much of the time, it can create discomfort and anxiety, " says Klein.
"As I grew older, and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people, " RZA says.
For the next generation, in their teens and under 10, the net transfer to older generations is JPY 30, 000, 000.
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And so he suggests some guidelines: It's OK for parents to require younger kids and teens to accept their friend requests, but kids should gain more freedom as they get older, just as they do in real life.
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Melinda Gates (in photo), another panelist who arrived in Davos after visiting Tanzania and Ethiopia, noted that girls who have babies in their teens are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their twenties and older.
There's a generation of teens and young adults who have grown up with social media and may be more reconciled than older Americans to the prospects of being tracked.
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