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Parents often think their teenagers tune them out when offered constructive criticism Guess what? They might be right. Researchers from Harvard University, the University of Pittsburgh and the University of ...

Nearly 2.5 million children were homeless last year, according to new figures published by the National Center on Family Homelessness. That's one out of every 30 kids. The number marked an 8 percent increase si...

Lammily, a doll created as a more realistic alternative to Barbie, is now on the market—along with an expansion pack that takes the doll's realism to a whole new level. The doll itself is modeled aft...

Hundreds of colleges and universities are asking incoming freshmen about their sexual history—part of a federally mandated effort to curtail sexual assaults on campus. "The more information they (schoo...

Admissions offices at the country's colleges and universities are checking out applicants' social media profiles more and more—and applicants know it. Which might help explain why those profiles seem so m...

A shy 3-year-old named Lane loses her inhibitions when she dresses as a Disney princess. Thanks to her seamstress mom, Jennifer, she's able to dress up as a princes quite a bit. "At first, I was making her c...

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Instagram has become the must-use app for teens and preteens, with 76 percent of teens using it regularly (according to a survey by Piper Jaffray). It also has become a prime tool for its users to measure their...

Americans are worried about privacy online, but that can be hard to come by in this age of ubiquitous information gathering. Many feel it may be too late to do anything about it. According to a recent study ...