By a 6-1 vote, a committee for the Riverside (Calif.) Unified School District banned The Fault in Our Stars from the district's middle schools. Those who voted to remove the book from its shelves were troubled ...

The Parents Television Council is hoping to bring an end to nudity-themed reality programming, taking on shows such as VH1's "Dating Naked," TLC's "Buying Naked" and Discovery's "Naked and Afraid." The group ha...

Most college freshmen think they'll go to college for four years, pocket their bachelor's degree and get on with their lives. Yet although nine out of 10 new college students think they'll get their degree in f...

There are more than 1 billion websites in the world now, according to Internet Live Stats, and that number continues to expand rapidly—even more so as website addresses expand beyond the familiar .com and...

Last year, a 12-year-old girl nearly was stabbed to death by two classmates in order to please Slenderman, a fictional Internet-based bogeyman. Now some Wisconsin residents are shocked that Halloween costumes o...

It seems almost everyone has a smartphone these days, and the younger you are the more likely you will be to have one. Among teens and 20-somethings, old-fashioned flip phones would seem to be about as rare as ...

It's cliché to say the book is always better than the movie, but when it comes to kids, they like to see—and read—for themselves. In February 2012—the month before The Hunger Games mov...

Illegal drug use continues to wane among teens, according to the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Only about 8.8 percent of youth between the ages of 12 and 17 reported using drugs in 2013, accordin...

Rosario, Argentina—hometown of the international soccer star Lionel Messi—is now forbidding parents living in the town to name their babies Messi. Apparently the regional civil register is forbiddin...

In the drive to legalize marijuana cross the country, proponents may want to consider a disturbing new study chronicling the drug's effects among teens. According to the study, conducted by Australia's Natio...