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It’s me, Margaret’s mom
Judy Blume’s gift to the world is her insistence that young people can be trusted as capable moral agents.
Turning Red and the terror and joy of female adolescence
Watching the Pixar movie alongside Euphoria and Yellowjackets made me appreciate the exuberant intensity of Mei’s embodiment.
by Kathryn Reklis
Confessions of a (moderate) prude
I am finally old enough to admit something: the mysteries of adulthood, those "mature themes" we try to hide from the young, are mostly stupid.
by Benjamin J. Dueholm
A tough age for girls
Teenage girls navigate a tough landscape. There are tools the church can offer them.
by Christiane Lang Hearlson
Despite bleak forecasts, many of today’s teenagers refuse to buy the marketed temptations to despair and fear. They’ll find a way.
by M. Craig Barnes
Divergent puts age-old questions of belonging in a new setting: a postapocalyptic society with the motto “factions before blood.”
by Beth Felker Jones