Healthy Relationships
During adolescence, young people learn how to form safe and healthy relationships with friends, parents, teachers and romantic partners. Both boys and girls often try on different identities and roles during this time, and relationships contribute to their development. Peers, in particular, play a big role in identity formation, but relationships with caring adults – including parents, mentors or coaches -- are also important for adolescent development. Often, the parent-adolescent relationship is the one relationship that informs how a young person handles other relationships. MORE »
Resources
Child and Youth Victimization Known to Police, School, and Medical Authorities
Growing up LGBT in America
Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9--12 --- Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, Selected Sites, United States, 2001—2009
Healthy Relationships in the States
Spotlight
1 is 2 Many
The White House's initiative on dating violence speaks to young men through a new PSA.
DID YOU KNOW?
Three out of four LGBT youth say most of their peers do not have a problem with their sexual identity.
