Fat cartoon characters may make their young fans fatter, too, according to a new study. To research this phenomenon, scientists showed about 60 eighth graders one of two cartoon characters: One was a nice, t...

The FBI rescued 600 children from sexual exploitation last year, but experts say these success stories are simply a fraction of the sex abuse actually taking place. Experts say tens of thousands of American chi...

Wheaton College has decided to stop offering health insurance to students so it can steer clear of the birth control coverage mandates of the government's Affordable Care Act. The decision will halt health care...

Now that our kids are back in school, we must be working to equip them to handle the peer pressure they face on a daily basis. The reality is that negative peer pressure is a spiritual battle all of us fight ...

More than half of youth between the ages of 18 to 29 cannot imagine life without a smartphone, according to a new poll from Gallup. (USA Today) ...

Sony Pictures Animation will be making an Emoji-themed motion picture in the next few years, to be to be co-written by Eric Siegel and Anthony Leondis (Kung Fu Panda 2). While a movie based on Emojis might feel...

It's not often we get to talk about Alzheimer's or dementia in this space. This is, after all, a youth culture update. What will we be talking about next—arthritis? As it turns out, what youth do in schoo...

It's pretty well established that the United States is slipping behind other developed countries in education, particularly in mathematics. In 2012, American kids ranked 29th in math, behind such countries as P...

American youth are having less sex than they did in the late 1980s, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but teens still are getting pregnant more often than those in othe...

The Fox Network is getting into the brewery business. In an effort to squelch copycat entrepreneurs who keep trying to shove their own brands of Duff Beer—Homer Simpson's favorite beverage in "The Simpson...