Christina Martin

There must be something wrong when kids get to pick between a Hershey's bar and chocolate cigarettes.

Some early graduates want an early start on college, while others are just ready to put high school behind them and stop serving their time as adolescents and move on to adult life.

They come home from a long day of work, pay the bills, take out the trash, make dinner, do the dishes, and finally fall asleep only to wake up the next day and do it all over again. This is often the life of an emancipated minor.

The Prioress was born with natural beauty and the absence of life skills to be learned, while the Wife of Bath was born with these natural skills but with the lack of natural beauty, a learned beauty in its absence.

D-X-M... three simple letters with not so simple side effects. DXM stands for dextromethorphan, a powerful and potentially dangerous drug that seems to be the new favorite among teens.

Piercing and tattoos among minors are becoming more popular every day, as is society's acceptance to them. With pop star examples like Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears sporting piercings and tattoos, seeing someone with a nose ring isn't at all abnormal anymore.

Is this what our future holds? Doctors at the University of Washington believe so, considering they've been doing research for over 25 years to develop a male birth control pill.