Preteens, Teens & Parents- your input is requested?

Of course, that's a great idea! I think that teens should have a forum to go to where they can ask questions in an unbiased environment where no one knows who they are. Sometimes as a teen, if you could just be invisible for one moment, it would solve a mass of issues. A forum like Yahoo Answers is a good outlet for them. I answere questions all the time from many teens who are scared about being pregnant or peer pressure and other things. I think that it would be great for them to have a space where they can talk amongst each other. The only thing that I would suggest is that there be certain measures in place for restrictions against self-identification. Maybe the webmaster could create a message/posting approval mechanism which could crawl for certain keywords and questions to determine pedophiliac solicitation(s). But as you said, that is a quest within itself!

I think it would be a great idea. I often hear people say that they wish there was a section like what you describe, so to make it happen would be a good move or at least give it a trial period to see if it does turn out to be successful and beneficial. It is a very good suggestion.

EDIT:Is it just me? This is the teen and pre-teen section but I am sure yahoo temporarily changed it to adolescent! Maybe yahoo are thinking of changing the name of this category? A

few minutes ago I saw the word adolescent and now it has changed back to teen and pre-teen!

I think that is a wonderful idea. There are a lot of teens that are looking for some good advice, not only from one another, but also from older people. A lot of answers these teens get back are totally inappropriate. I was answering a very serious question about a younger girl who had questions about sex, and she got some very obscene answers.

Yahoo needs to come up with some better filtering, so that overall, kids aren't exposed to that junk.

I'd LOVE to have a section where we could post without getting answers like "are you pregnant? a parent? have an adolescent child? have a baby or new born? have a toddler? then why are you posting this here? go post somewhere else."

That's a very smart idea =]

I totally support it, 100%!

SUPPORT!

i really believe this is not the place for young people to be asking questions.

or at least a family section. for kids, teens, and parents.

I think the adolescent section goes to the kids-- if you made this it would just be a copy of this.

Of course! All the trolls who report questions because we are too young are tattletails. I f Y!A approves, it would be my homepage! Kudis to you for being such a smart and considerate person.

i say yeah, as a lot of questions i answer are from teens who have general questions and a lot of the answers i see are from people saying this is for parents not kids. i say go for it

er sure...

i dont get how my safety is in danger if i ask a question in the adolesent section though...

also if you made a section for just teenagers to go in

the paedofiles would just go in there

you cant stop that

yes