An alcohol watchdog hopes a survey that shows more than one in four teens aged between 15 and 17 often drink a risky amount of alcohol serves as a sharp wake-up call. Alcohol Healthwatch director Rebecca Williams said more needed to be done to reduce the availability and cost of liquor, and the marketing of Read more
Posts Tagged ‘teenagers at risk’
The facts about eating disorders
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Eating Disorders are among some of the most serious and challenging mental illnesses that affect our children and adolescents. Recent research suggeststhat up to 75% of adolescent girls view themselves as overweight or needing to lose weight and around a quarter of our teenagers are experimenting with dangerous dieting behaviour, such as taking laxatives and severely restricting Read more
Celia Lashlie says too-soft mums put sons at risk
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
Controversial social commentator Celia Lashlie says too-soft mums ‘put sons at risk’. She said that many teenage boys are killed on the roads because their mums smother them and refuse to let them discover the consequences of their own actions. Speaking to a Traffic Institute conference in Hamilton yesterday, the former prison officer turned author Read more