Justice Is Unequal for Parents Who Host Teen Drinking Parties
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When police showed up recently at a Walt Whitman High School graduation party, three young people were drinking in a vehicle parked outside the Bethesda home. Then three more teenagers walked up with a six-pack in a bag. While the police were dealing with them, the mother came outside, saw the...
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Parents able to check with police whether people given access to their children have convictions
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Rebellious teenagers may soon have another reason to curse the establishment now that a lawmaker wants to add Washington to the list of states that require parental permission before minors can pierce a body part.
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A new inquiry will examine whether parents are being let down by the family court system.
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Pediatricians may think they know whether a teenage patient is using alcohol or drugs and to what extent, but a new study finds doctors greatly misjudge the problem.
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Parents have not received details of police evidence.
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Parents consistently and substantially underestimate their childrenÂs use of alcohol and other drugs, a new study has found.
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A state lawmaker wants to give members of the armed forces younger than 21 the right to buy alcohol even though it's in stark contrast to the military's efforts to diminish underage drinking and related accidents.
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PHILADELPHIA - October 13 - With the Supreme Court now poised to decide if the death penalty for minors constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, will Pennsylvania and Delaware finally take a look at their own laws?
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Severe alcohol and drug abuse by teenagers may be easily missed during routine and urgent-care medical visits, particularly in girls.
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Four German bartenders behaved immorally by serving over 50 shots of tequila to a 16-year-old boy who died after the drinking binge, a state prosecutor told a court on the opening day of the trial into the youth's death.
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U.S. parents are more worried about the amount of time their kids spend watching television or meeting friends on Internet social networks than about sex or alcohol abuse, according to a new study.
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When parents and doctors cannot agree over the treatment children should receive, it is left to the courts to decide what route to take.
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Family-based therapy works better than individual supportive therapy in treating teenagers with bulimia, a study suggests.
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CLEVELAND -- When her father went off to war, 13-year-old Brittney Wilkinson felt angry. She cried at unexpected times and battled her older sister, Ashley. At school, she seemed withdrawn. When her mother saw an offer that would pay for art classes for both girls, she jumped at it.
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A review of information on sex offenders will give parents more rights but stops short of a 'Sarah's Law'.
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Severe alcohol and drug abuse by teenagers, particularly girls, may be easily missed during routine and urgent-care medical visits.