4 Troubled Teens Blog

Reclusive author JD Salinger died recently at the age of 91. His most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye, has been read by generations of teenagers. Even today, teachers like Noah Klein require their students to read it.

Noah Klein assigned his Iroquois (Kent.) High School English class a paper exploring the themes of "The Catcher in the Rye," and said "One of the amazing things about this book is that the struggles of being an adolescent are universal." Klein says the book can be an eye-opener for troubled teens. [Source: The Courier-Journal]

Klein chose "The Cather in the Rye" because a lot of his teens are "doing things they shouldn't be doing," he told the newspaper, and he hopes Holden Caulfield will give them a different perspective.

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Teens and their mothers overestimate the rate of teen sexual activity, according to a Canadian study.

Over 1100 teens and their mothers participated in the survey, and estimated that by ages 17 to 18 years old, 66% had had sexual experience. The actual figure is 42% for boys and 47% for girls.

"Teens talk about sex. That does not mean that they do it," said lead researcher Dr. Jean-Ives Frappier of Montreal's Sainte Justine University Health Centre.

This study appears in Pediatrics and Child Health.

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Labels: sex, awareness, perceptions

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