The more time teens spend with their parents, the more confident they feel. According to a study published in Child Development, time with fathers proved to be particularly beneficial to teens. "Mothers weren't...

The average kid makes about $65 a week in allowance—earnings that add up to $780 a year. That's enough to buy some pretty neat stuff …if children were to save their earnings. However, their parents ...

Harry Potter. Twilight. The Hunger Games. All the best-selling books these days seem to be written for young adults. So perhaps it's not too surprising that some of fiction's most prominent authors are taking a...

The quest for the next basketball superstar begins early—very early…as in middle school. Recruiters for top private high schools in and around Washington, D.C.—where many top college and profe...

The state of California is considering a measure that would allow kids to have more than two legally recognized parents—a move that would broaden the definition of what family really means. This would mea...

For most people, the word college conjures up images of massive lecture halls, absentminded professors, wild dorms and piles of money for tuition; but that definition is rapidly broadening. Many colleges and un...

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The 2012 Olympic Games in London were considered the most social—as in social networking—in history, and the numbers prove it. More than 150 million Olympic-themed tweets were sent during the two-we...

A top Scrabble player was booted from the game's national championship tourney after officials caught him hiding blank letter titles. The name of the cheater wasn't released because he's a minor. "It does happe...

Teen girls are having less oral sex than they once did, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; but the numbers are still frighteningly high. According to the CDC repor...