The past several years have been tough on graduating college students. While the economy has pulled out of recession, that hasn't made jobs easier to find for prospective employees relatively new to the work fo...

Researchers have built what Chris Danforth calls "the Dow Jones index of happiness," using the frequency of key words culled from Twitter. Danforth and other researchers look at about 50 million tweets a day (a...

Teens who smoke cigarettes are far more likely—23 times more likely—to use marijuana, according to a study from Seattle Children's Research Institute and the University of Michigan. Those who smoked tobacco...

An Arkansas school district has decided to cancel sixth grade graduation ceremonies rather than remove a traditional opening prayer. A parent apparently requested the prayer be removed—a request followed ...

Joel Stein has written a cover story for the May 20 issue of Time magazine titled "Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation." The story quotes many of the same statistics we've recounted in our Youth Culture Update...

How Are You Going to Celebrate Mother's Day?Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:"Hi Mom!" Whenever a television camera zooms on an athlete on a football f...

Millennials are lazy and spoiled. Well, a new study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin didn't put in those exact words, but that's pretty much the gist of it. According to researchers J...

The Obama administration is squaring off against a federal judge regarding the morning after pill; but no matter who wins the squabble, younger girls will be able to get their hands on the drug. The morning aft...

Smoking is a serious health concern even for people who don't light up. The dangers of secondhand smoke have been well documented, but new research suggests teen girls are particularly susceptible. According to...

Americans send around 2.2 trillion texts in 2012, according to the Wireless Association—or more than 19 texts per person per day—but believe it or not, that represents a 5-percent decrease in the nu...