Youth Culture Update: Twoublesome Tweets
Zayn Malik of the singing group One Direction recently tweeted #FreePalestine—a message that was favorited 200,000 times and triggered several death threats toward Malik.He's the latest in a long line of ...
Youth Culture Update: Be Independent…of the Internet
There are now efforts afoot to help teens and youth—notoriously comfortable with the Internet and all its many, many social networking sites—become a little more skeptical of them all. At least one ...
Youth Culture Update: Scheming Social Networks
The news has been rife with stories about how social networks have been experimenting with its users. Facebook confessed that it meddled with the newsfeeds of 700,000 of its users, ostensibly to see if the post...
Youth Culture Update: Girl Power
The Little League baseball team in Toms River, N.J., may be on its way to the Little League World Series—thanks in large part to its power-hitting first baseman, who just happens to be a girl.Kayla Roncin...
Youth Culture Lesson: Role Model
Should a TV Star Be One? Should You?Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat HappenedNickelodeon has cancelled its show "Sam & Cat" after one season on the air. The...
Youth Culture Update: Big Apple
Just how huge is Apple? When we're told the tech giant earned $37.4 billion in the most recent quarter, the numbers can feel a little meaningless. So here's some perspective: If Apple spun off the iPhone into i...
Youth Culture Update: Weighty Misperceptions
Most overweight children and adolescents believe their weight levels are just fine, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, even if they are overweight.About 81 percent of ov...
Youth Culture Update: The Demigod Diet
In order to get and stay in shape for his titular role in the movie Hercules, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson ate seven meals a day for a total of 4,500 calories. His three daily breakfasts alone consisted of a 10-ou...
Youth Culture Update: Pressure to Look Perfect
About one in every 10 high schoolers has used illicit human growth hormones, according to a survey by the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. The 11 percent of adolescents who admitted using is more than double the...
Youth Culture Update: Saving Under the Mattress
Stocks? Bonds? Real estate? Forget it. Young adults would rather keep their savings in cash.According to Bankrate.com's most recent Financial Security Index, 39 percent of Millennials—people between the a...