Five football players from DeMatha Catholic High School in Maryland got in trouble recently for hiring prostitutes while on a road trip—via their cell phones. The fact that underage kids could do such a t...

Smartphones have become the norm, according to a new poll from the Nielsen Company. More than half of all Americans now use one, with their use particularly popular among the young. About 74 percent of folks ag...

Parents who've conscientiously denied their tweens access to Facebook (which technically requires users be 13 or older) may not realize their children may be finding other pseudo-social networks—most prom...

TobyMac, a big name in Christian rap and music, had the No. 1 album in the land earlier this month with his new release Eye On It. It was the first time a Christian album has hit the top in 15 years, when LeAnn...

Earthquake? Floods? Fire? Meh. What you really need to prepare for, says the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is the zombie apocalypse. No, really. FEMA recently hosted a webinar telling folks what they sho...

Binge drinking is a growing problem, many experts say—an opinion borne out by many studies on teen alcohol abuse. Some believe that stress—and indirectly, parents—may unintentionally feed the ...

The Internet is great. The people on it could behave a bit better, though. That's the consensus of folks polled by Intel and Ipsos as part of a comprehensive "Internet Etiquette" survey conducted in eight count...

Kids participating in recreational soccer or Little League is about as American as apple pie and, well, baseball; but they're also getting increasingly expensive—and costs grow with the competition. Just ...

Are you staying up too late studying?Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:With summer almost gone, most youth are back in school by now. However, when clas...

More than a third of youth ages 13 to 17 can't last 10 minutes without checking their phones, according to a new survey by TextPlus. About half of teens say they couldn't live without them for a week, and 61 pe...