Chips let parents track teen driving
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
--"One thing that can change behavior is if you know Mom and Dad are going to find out," said Russ Rader, a spokesman for the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Program boosts bone health of lean teen girls
Reuters.uk - UK
-- "I think the key to the success of the program," DeBar told Reuters Health, "was to focus on having the teen participants, with a group of their peers, engage in lifestyle changes and activity that they saw as relevant and fun for their lives in the short run rather than just a means of preventing a later health condition (osteoporosis) that seems remote and not personally relevant to many teenagers."

Flagship children's centres fail to help most needy, study finds
Guardian Unlimited - UK
--Teenage mothers, parents of disabled children, some ethnic minority parents and other particularly needy groups are least likely to visit a children's centre to use services such as healthcare or parenting advice provided there, so the services need to be taken to them, it says.

Taiwan youth dress down to assert identity
Boston Globe - United States
--This dress and behavior code, known loosely as "tai-ke," has been a minor rage for about 20 years as Taiwan youth seek a distinctly local identity in the face of China's threats to declare the whole island Chinese, social commentators say.