That's the day parents officially face the possibility that their "child" is already having sex, or at least seriously considering it, so it's time to deliver the warning about unwanted pregnancies, the dangers of STDs and the emotional, long-term turmoil either can create.
After days of chaos and increasingly urgent calls for help, international agencies were working to develop plans for dealing with the fallout from Libya's turmoil long term.
This has created concerns about its ability to sustain the turmoil for the long term.
Despite the current turmoil, housing prices over the long term have been more stable than those of stocks.
In September 1998 the Fed cut interest rates by a quarter point during the turmoil that followed the implosion of Long Term Capital Management, a hedge fund.
All this because the cities voted decisively for the MDC.More worrying, for the long term, Zimbabwe's usually productive commercial farming remains in turmoil.
Hamas is based in Syria, which is in turmoil, and it may not be able to stay there over the long term.
"Think long term," he said.
