Youth Culture Update: Taking Aim

The success of the film The Hunger Games has sparked a new wave of interest in an age-old sport: archery. Inspired by the marksmanship of Katniss Everdeen, girls across the country are picking up bows and setti...

Youth Culture Update: Old Before Their Time

Violence and bullying may cause children to age prematurely, according to a new study from Great Britain. Scientists studied 236 children—half of whom were exposed to some level of violence or abuse—...

Youth Culture Update: Dangerous Games

Pedophiles are using popular gaming platforms such as PlayStation 3 and Xbox to seduce young children—particularly boys—online, according to research done by Kingston University in London. While thi...

Youth Culture Lesson: Prom Pressure

Get Downloadable PDF.Get Downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:Want to take Taylor Swift to prom? How about Taylor Lautner? Better ask soon. As it turns out, celebrities are being d...

Youth Culture Update: Naked Traffic

Porn sites account for 30 percent of all Internet traffic, according to ExtremeTech. The biggest site, Xvideos, reports 4.4 billion pageviews a month—making it three times more popular than sites connecte...

Youth Culture Update: Googly Glasses

Not content to stick with search engines, social networking sites and self-driving cars, Google is working on Internet-savvy eyeglasses. The glasses, called Project Glass and powered by the Android operating sy...

Youth Culture Update: New Rating for Bully

Bully, a documentary about harassed youth that was controversially slapped with an R-rating by the MPAA, will be re-released as a PG-13 film thanks to a bit of editing. The MPAA originally was rated R because o...