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Being a youth minister is hard work. Hard work that often, goes unthanked. so. THANK YOU youth ministers! or as we like to say... YOUTH MINISTARZ!!! - gavin

Those of us with teenagers are well aware of the games we're forced to play daily. Once your child becomes a teenager he automatically gains the ability to resurrect the "terrible two's" you only thought you'd escaped some eleven or twelve years ago. - gavin

It has long been assumed that the cavalier behavior of teenagers — driving too fast, engaging in unprotected sex, dabbling in illicit drugs — is due in part to their characteristic disregard for mortality. Teens, as any beleaguered parent of one can attest, usually operate under the presumption that they know it all and will live forever. Or, do they? A new study published in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics would suggest precisely the opposite. For some teens, at least, their reckless, sometimes life-endangering choices are fueled not by feelings of being bulletproof, but by the belief that they're doomed to die young anyway. - gavin

Girls Educational and Mentoring Services, the nation's largest survivor-led organization serving American girls and young women who have experienced sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, is joining forces with Beyoncé Knowles, Halle Berry, Demi Moore, Sinead O'Connor, Mary J Blige, Katie Ford and women across America for its Girls Are Not for Sale campaign. Kicking off July 7th - gavin

At this Girl Scout camp, female chief executives work with teenage girls to help them realize their career goals. MarketWatch's Julia Brenner reports. - gavin

According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 160,283 children 18 and under had cosmetic interventions in 2008. The figure was even higher in 2007, tallying 205,119, but industry experts say a slowing economy probably forced the numbers down in 2008. In 2000, the number was just 145,094. - gavin

New research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found substantial reductions in binge drinking since the national drinking age was set at 21 two decades ago, with one exception: college students. The rates of binge drinking in male collegians remain unchanged, but the rates in female collegians have increased dramatically. - gavin

13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week. - gavin