Teen Health: Relationships

The National Runaway Safeline has existed for more than 40 years. It aims to serve runaway, homeless, and at-risk youth, offering teleconferencing options, live chat, texting options, and other means of support and assistance for those who choose not to live with their parents or guardians.

The Family and Youth Services Bureau has developed an interactive video encouraging young adults to speak up and interact with the adults in their lives to improve communication between generations and encourage sharing of information and knowledge. Also available as a brochure.

Nemours’ TeensHealth provides practical suggestions for teens on talking to adults about everyday and difficult topics, how to talk so that parents will listen, and what to do if talking doesn’t seem to help. Also available in Spanish.

In an essay by D’Arcy Lyness, PhD, Nemours’ TeensHealth addresses the matter of fighting with parents, exploring the reasons why it can be so difficult to get along with parents and offering hope for improved relations in the future. Also in Spanish.

Nemours’ TeensHealth discusses cliques – what they are, what it’s like to be in them, and what it’s like to be outside of them. Also available in Spanish.

Seven tips for handling conflict with expanded suggestions and detailed explanations. Although it’s offered by GirlsHealth.gov, the tips apply equally to readers of any gender.

This piece is based on a question asked at Nemours’ TeensHealth page, and addresses how to deal with the inevitable occurrence of hurting friends’ feelings. Be sure to follow the link to the guide on Apologies for more information on the best ways and reasons to offer apologies.

An online resource for teenage health and wellness providing a place for teenagers to ask questions about health, their body, their sexuality, and more. Maintained with input from teenagers and support from community leaders, Atlantic Health System’s Community Health Department and the Goryeb Children’s Hospital are responsible for the content and operation of the site.

Nemours’ TeensHealth page offers a wide-ranging article covering why we fall in love, what makes a loving relationships last, why relationships end, and how to move on. Also available in Spanish.

Love is Respect’s mission is to engage, educate, and empower young people to prevent and end abusive relationships.

An online resource for teenage health and wellness providing a place for teenagers to ask questions about health, their body, their sexuality, and more. Maintained with input from teenagers and support from community leaders, Atlantic Health System’s Community Health Department and the Goryeb Children’s Hospital are responsible for the content and operation of the site.

TwoOfUs.org is a project of the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center (NHMRC), a clearinghouse for quality, balanced, and timely information and resources on healthy relationships

The government of Victoria, Australia created this website for young people aged 12-25, filled to overflowing with great information and articles about a variety of topics. The Relationships page also covers sexual health and links to several (Australia-based) websites on the same topic.