Alcohol is our most common recreational drug. It's important to start talking about alcohol and other drugs with your teen from an early age. Alcohol is a huge part of kiwi culture and it would be hard to find any social gathering where alcohol does not play a significant role. Is it any wonder that they regard alcohol as important to their gatherings and celebrations as well? Although experimenting with alcohol and other drugs can be common among teenagers, it's not always safe - or legal. So it's important to start talking about alcohol and other drugs with them from an early age and to keep talking about it as they grow up.

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Sexual abuse is any behaviour of a sexual nature that you have not agreed to. It may make you feel uncomfortable, frightened, worried or intimidated. Tasmanian state law - note that other states in Australia have differing laws on consent. For more information about the legalities of consent, see the Legal Aid Commission of Tasmania's website. Remember that any sexual contact w ithout consent is sexual assault.
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Residents of a small Manitoba town are talking about the brutal sexual assault of a teenaged girl and trying to understand how it could have happened — but the RCMP stayed silent for more than a week passed since her attack. As many as five men sexually assaulted a year-old Amaranth girl who fell asleep on the couch in her home on June I don't know what I'd do if that was me.
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