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	Erika Lyn Smith BellaOnline's Missing and Exploited Children Editor

Active Listening Skills
Hearing what your child says is vastly different than listening to them as you multitask. To be an active listener one must stop everything else and focus his or her full attention on the person who is speaking. Read here to learn how to be an active listener.

Dating Violence in Teens
Teens are often the victims of dating violence. Sadly, many teens are unprepared for a violent situation and often do not know how to respond when someone becomes violent in a relationship. Find out how to protect your teen.

Designer Thrills - Teen Prostitution Among Middle and Upper Class Teenagers
Designer sex is the term given to teen prostitution or teen prostitutes that have sex for thrills or the money to buy designer items they want but not necessarily anything they need to survive.

Offenders Disguised as Teens Online
That 15-year-old teen boy talking to your son or daughter, more than likely is a wolf disguised as a sheep. Adults will often pretend to be someone close to the age of your child. Learn how to keep children safe on the world wide web.

Running Away in America
Everyday a child chooses to leave home and go out on his or her own. National statistics estimate 1.3 million kids, ages 10-18 will runaway from their living situation this year.

Sexting and Teens and New Laws
Teens are sexting everyday in school, at home, on their jobs. The problem with sexting is that most high school students are under 18 and sexting is causing major issues for both, sender and receiver. The reason sexting is causing such chaos is it is illegal.

Sexting Teens Felony Charges
The name of the new game is sexting and it is where teens send sexually explicit photos of themselves on the computer by email or over the cell phone waves in a text message. This hot new topic is causing grief for teens of all ages.

Stalking
Stalking defined is a repeat pattern of unwanted attention. Stalking is a crime that affects over one million people each year. Every year approximately one million women and 400,000 men are victims of stalking. Do you know how to stay safe?

Teen Alert and Parental Supervision
Just when you begin to relax as a parent, you realize that there is no resting point. Last week my almost 15 year old decided to take the dog for a walk. This is nothing new in our home, except she failed to come home in a timely manner.

Teen Safety at Parties
Young men and women must be especially careful when they go out to parties, or social gatherings. Here are some safety guidelines to help keep every teen safe when out on the town.

The Predator Drugs, Rohypnol, GBH, and Ketamine
Many substances can render one incapable of resisting a sexual assault, including drugs like marijuana, ecstasy, alcohol, and even over the counter sleep and allergy medicines like Benadryl. Yet, even more powerful, are drugs known as date rape drugs.