The Tender Cut C. (Chad) Daniel Raisch this well-researched discussion by an

this well-researched discussion by an expert on child development will make parents and school systems rethink how we are raising our children

including the digitally mediated texts and multimedia compositions that are so prevalent in young adult literature and in students' creative and critical responses to this genre

Is suicide ever rationally or morally justified

Through an exploration of our boundaries

that of the collaboratively written autobiography

The Tender Cut C. (Chad) Daniel Raisch this well-researched discussion by anCutting, burning, branding, and bone breaking are all types of self injury, or the deliberate, non suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of