Parents must provide responsible adult authority on which the child can depend; as adolescence proceeds, they must teach the teenager to assume more responsible self-ruling power.

Nine out of the 10 districts with the highest prevalence of young adolescent females having sex before age 16 were in the Ashanti Region. These included Akrofuom (42.07 percent), Amansie South (41 ...

Dr Lucy Foulkes is an academic psychologist at the University of Oxford, where she leads research into adolescent mental health and social development. In her new book, Coming of Age, she draws on ...

Adolescence begins the age of more thankless parenting. Now, driven by the need for increased freedom to grow, to experiment, and explore more worldly experience, the teenager can bridle at ...