Youth Culture Update: Burned
Despite repeated warnings, youth still are spending too much unprotected time in the sun, according to researchers. Half of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 say they've suffered a sunburn in the past ...
Youth Culture Update: Dangerous Addiction
One of every eight high school seniors has used a painkilling drug they didn't have a prescription for, according to new research. Many began taking these prescription medications when they were 16 or 17. The f...
Youth Culture Update: Talk About Your Two-Dimensional Date
We reported earlier about the fact many teens are taking to YouTube and Twitter to ask celebrities out to prom, but what if they don't hear back? No problem. They'll just bring them anyway. Some prom-going teen...
Youth Culture Update: Teen Birthrates Dropping
The birthrate among teens continues to drop, reaching a point not seen in any year since 1946, according to government figures. According to statistics from the National Center for Health Studies, the birth rat...
Youth Culture Update: Social Before Their Time
Even though kids technically aren't allowed to open a Facebook account until they're 13—and many parents forbid it for years after that—tweens are finding more avenues to connect online. Take 12-yea...
Youth Culture Update: Millennials—the ‘We’ Generation? Try ‘Me.’
Remember all that talk about how Millennials—folks born between 1982 and 1999—were supposed to be the next greatest generation? How they were apparently more caring and concerned with the world arou...
Youth Culture Update: Hard Lesson
A Pennsylvania pastor hoped to teach his church's youth group something about religious persecution. Instead, the pastor may be in some serious trouble himself. According to authorities, several teens were atte...
Youth Culture Lesson: Special Where It Counts
Junior High Students Build Award-Winning Car Get downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:It might not look like much. The car is made of corrugated plastic. It...
Youth Culture Update: Would That be Called Cleaning Out Your System?
Six teens recently were rushed to hospitals in Southern California after guzzling hand sanitizer. According to doctors, liquid hand sanitizer is more than 60 percent alcohol; and teens desperate for a buzz are ...
Youth Culture Update: Get Your Motor Putting
A group of Missouri seventh and eighth graders built a car in their industrial technology class, and while the vehicle may not look like much—its body is made of corrugated plastic, after all—it's a...