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Source: Google
Top 10 U.S. Websites - 2/10/12
1. Google
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Source: Alexa
iTunes Top 10 Singles - 2/10/12
1. We Are Young - Fun.
2. What Doesn't Kill You (Stronger) - Kelly Clarkson
3. Set Fire to the Rain - Adele
4. Sexy and I Know It - LMFAO
5. Give Me All Your Luvin - Madonna
6. Turn Me On - David Guetta & Nicki Minaj
7. Ass Back Home - Gym Class Heroes
8. Rack City - Tyga
9. Good Feeling - Flo Rida
10. Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye
Source: Apple iTunes
Top 10 TV Shows in Prime Time - Week Ending 2/5/12
1. Super Bowl XLVI
2. Super Bowl XLVI - Postgame
3. Voice
4. American Idol - Wednesday
5. American Idol - Thursday
6. The Big Bang Theory
7. Person of Interest
8. The Mentalist
9. NCIS
10. Blue Bloods
Source: Nielsen Co
Top 5 Most Viewed Videos on YouTube - This Week - 2/10/12
1. M&Ms "Sexy and I Know It' Super Bowl
2. OK Go - Needing/Getting - Official Video
3. Halftime in America
4. Shocking Before and After Transformation
5. Pop Superstar Madonna at Super Bowl
Source: YouTube
Top 5 Movies - Week Ending 2/9/12
1. Chronicle
2. The Woman in Black
3. The Grey
4. Big Miracle
5. Underworld Awakening
Source: Variety
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Friday, February 10, 2012Teen Pregnancy, Abortion Rates at Record Low
Friday, February 10, 2012Birth and abortion rates among U.S. teens fell to record lows in 2008 as increased use of contraceptives sent the overall teen pregnancy rate to its lowest level since at least 1972, a new study shows.
Researchers at the Guttmacher Institute looked at government statistics on teen-age sex, pregnancies and births, as well as the institute's own data on abortions for 2008, the most recent year for which all the numbers were available.
They found that nearly 750,000 U.S. women under the age of 20 became pregnant in 2008 -- nearly 98 percent of them between the ages of 15 and 19.
That translated into a pregnancy rate of 67.8 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, the researchers said, the lowest pregnancy rate seen since 1972. It was also down 42 percent from 1990, when teen pregnancies peaked at 116.9 per 1,000 teen girls and women.
The teen abortion rate in 2008 dropped to the lowest rate seen since 1972 at 17.8 per 1,000 teen girls and women, the analysis found, and was down 59 percent from 1988 when the abortion rate peaked at 43.5 per 1,000 teen women.
The Guttmacher researchers said the decline in teen birthrates was largely attributable to increased contraceptive use by teens of both genders.
Source: Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/08/us-teen-pregnancy-idUSTRE8171J020120208
Tween Dating: All About Texts
Friday, February 10, 2012Nearly half of 11- to 14-year-olds say they have been in a dating relationship, according to a 2008 survey of 1,043 tweens by Tru, a Chicago youth market-research firm, for Liz Claiborne. A larger share—60%—think parents should let middle-schoolers date, according to a recent online poll of 787 users by Yoursphere, a social-networking website for tweens and teens.
But "dating" in middle school doesn't mean what many adults think. Tween couples talk mostly via text and chat. Their relationships are fleeting but all-consuming. They date in packs—but expect their boyfriends and girlfriends to be monogamous. When they break-up, it's often via text. And they keep their parents largely in the dark.
Anthony Conselatore didn't tell his parents the first time he asked a girl out, at age 12. "I was nervous, and we really didn't talk much while we were dating," says the Potomac Falls, Va., teen. "We'd see each other in the hallway for five minutes, then go to classes and not talk to each other again until the next week." Within a couple of months, he adds, "she fell in love with a different guy, and she broke up with me," he says. "It happens."
Now 14, Anthony is "more than friends" with a girl at school. When he sees her in the hall, "we give each other a hug and go on with our lives," he says. But they fire more than 300 text messages back and forth each day. If they do go out, they go in a pack of friends because it helps avoid "that awkward moment, when we're staring at each other for five minutes, not saying anything," Anthony says.
When a classmate approached 13-year-old Nicholas Kelly in the school cafeteria to ask him out, she brought a friend for "moral support," Nicholas says. "We dated for seven days," mostly by text message, Nicholas says. "In middle school, a long relationship is a month. Anything over that and your friends say, 'Omigod, you guys have been together that long?' " He adds, "Then, she broke up with me. I lay on my bed staring at the wall for three hours, and then it was, like, 'OK, I've got a life,' " and he went out with his friends and forgot about it.
These days, talk about dating becomes pervasive when kids turn 9 or 10, amid earlier onset of puberty and social pressure to grow up fast, experts say.
Source: Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203315804577209052395064034.html
Depressed Adolescents More Likely to be Bullied
Thursday, February 09, 2012A new study provides evidence that adolescents who suffer from depression are more likely to develop difficulty in peer relationships including being bullied at school.
It's often assumed that being bullied leads to psychological problems, such as depression, but the study doesn't support this line of thought.
"Often the assumption is that problematic peer relationships drive depression. We found that depression symptoms predicted negative peer relationships," said Karen Kochel, Arizona State University School of Social and Family Dynamics assistant research professor. "We examined the issue from both directions but found no evidence to suggest that peer relationships forecasted depression among this school-based sample of adolescents."
Being depressed in fourth grade predicted peer victimization in fifth grade and difficulty with peer acceptance in sixth grade, according to the research.
"Teachers, administrators and parents need to be aware of the signs and symptoms of depression and the possibility that depression is a risk factor for problematic peer relations," Kochel said.
The new research is published in the journal Child Development.
Source: MedicalXpress
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-adolescents-depression-bullied.html
About Jim Liebelt
Jim is Senior Writer, Editor and Researcher for the HomeWord Center for Youth and Family at Azusa Pacific University. Jim has over 25 years of experience as a youth and family ministry specialist, and has been on the HomeWord staff since 1998. He has served over the years as a pastor, author, youth ministry trainer, adjunct college instructor and speaker. Jim’s culture blog and parenting articles appear on HomeWord.com. Jim is a contributing author of culture and parenting articles to Crosswalk.com. Jim and his wife Jenny live in Olympia, WA.
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