Young Girls More At Risk Than Ever

When it comes to drug addiction young teenage girls are more at risk than ever. Am I surprised. No I know this from watching my own young teen. The other day I caught her talking on the phone to a friend and telling her 'I could really use a lorezapam.' She is only fourteen.

So where did she get this idea she could really use a lorezapam (which is a drug ten times as strong as valium.) Well it just so happens that her cousin who is eighteen has bee prescribed it for some kind of anxiety disorder. And now she thinks it cool to be all upset and on a drug as well. It does not help either that half of my family is on anti-depressants are anti-anxiety drugs of one form on another either. So she gets the idea that it is her life path to eventually be on them from us as well.

Not only that a ivillage.com also recently reported a study that teen girls are also feeling more competitive with boys lately and think they can do everything the same way boys can – including the way boys drink and do drugs. Girls now take steroids and chug down kegs of beer too after a football game. They are also smoking drinking and getting into car accidental at accelerated rates. There is also a terrible rise in teen pregnancies, which means that these girls also have an unrealistic view of themselves as being strong enough personally and financially to be a single mother.

A study conducted in 2006 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse showed that girls aged 12-17 were at a high risk than boys for substance abuse. Another 2006 study, this by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy also revealed that more teen girls rather than teen boys are addicted to drinking, drugs and shoeing. And finally, a recent University of California study revealed that teen girls are almost as bad as the boys when it comes to getting in car accidents.

The bottom line is that girls cannot handle the same amount of this type of addictive stress as boys. They are smaller physically and more hormonal. However I can't tell my teenager daughter anything like that or else I am being sexist and not a feminist. Not that she likes feminists much either. She would see having a baby out of wedlock as an expression of her independence or even love of some guy rather than as an act of feminism.

Still I know that her and her friends consider themselves to be better than boys in many ways. I have heard them talking about how women have greater stamina or how a girl can do anything that she wants. Still, having girls on par with the boys when it comes to adolescent alcohol or drug abuse or car accidents is not great of an achievement.

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Unlucky Baby Names

I was talking to this numerologist on Kasamba called Samantha Stevens (not her real name) and we got on the discussion of unlucky baby names. If you are trying to name a baby then you might be interested in what she had to say.

Numerologists use a values system to see what a person's name adds up to and this ends up being what is called the Life Expression number.

Perhaps the unluckiest number a name's letter values can add up to is a 4. You should avoid also having a component of the name such as the first, middle or last name adding up to a 4 as well. This is because this is a number that is equated with struggles, challenges and poverty

Female names that add up to a 4 include Arianna, Gretel Elvira, Inga, Joan, Star, Lourdes, Nicole, Robin, Trixie and Joan. Male names that add up to a 4 include Dexter, Donovan, Gene, Herbert, Blake, Jude, Kirk, Regis, Solomon and Rudolph. These names reduce down to a 3 +1 value that is considered to be very unfortunate.

However if you a 4 name that adds up to a 22 then the name will be much luckier. A good example of this is the name Oprah, which actually did add up to a 4. The famous television host's name was originally a name from the Bible that was supposed to be spelled Orpah. Either way her name would to add up to 4, but it is a 4 that reduces down from the number 22. The number 22 is the number of the Master Builder, which is very fortunate. It is the fours that equate from 13 that are unluckier.

According to Samantha you also need to avoid names beginning with the number 6 as it also indicates a life where the person has a lot of responsibilities and interference from family. If you want your child not to be a burden to you or vice versa avoid naming the girls Connie, Ethel, Phoebe, Traci, Andie, Bridgit, Dawn, Ginger, Kim and Paula, Unlucky number 6 names for boys include Wade, Clive, Ian, Dirk, Dustin, Fabio, Sam, Seth, Victor, Howie and Arden.

The next worst number to have a child's name to add up to would probably be a 7. Although this is the number of genius it is also a number that can mean that you are raising a real weirdo. Number 7 names for girls include Cher, Ellie, Goldie, Andréa, Pearl, Isabella, Jacqueline, Tabitha, Victoria and Alana. Unlucky number 7 names for guys include Clifton, Basil, Brad, Kevin, Derik, Jack, Thor, Maddox, Richard, and Willard.

Names that add up to a number 5 can mean that the child might have difficult in finding love or staying in a relationship. According to Sam you should ignore these names for girls — Elsie, Gigi, Samantha, Janet, June, Kat, Amelia, Apple and Barb. Unlucky in love names. Names that are unlucky in love for boys include Number 5 names for males are Zack, Eldon, Lewis, Morton, Russ, Ashton, Bart, Cecil, Donald and Sheldon.

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