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Article: Many young women are at risk - but you can help.(Local Opinion)
- Article from:
- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- February 18, 2009
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Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Verna Wise and Craig Opperman For The Register-Guard
You may not realize it, but many adolescent girls in our community are suffering. They could use your help.
These young women are confronting everything from serious drug and alcohol addictions to the usual storm of emotions that goes along with adolescence.
Unfortunately, they are finding it hard - in some cases, impossible - to gain access to the same services that are more available to young men.
Young women face a dramatic inequity of services that leaves many of them suffering in silence. Sexism, overt media messages and stereotypical expectations ...