Youth between the ages of 14 and 15 are the children most likely to feel dissatisfied with their lives, according to a British study from The Children's Society. About 15 percent of 14- and 15-year-olds say the...

The economy may have pulled itself out of the doldrums it experienced for the past several years, but rising college costs haven't ebbed at all, which means many parents are relying more on grants and scholarsh...

In the past several years, 24 states have legalized marijuana in some manner. Most often, states have decriminalized possession or allowed for the purchase of medicinal marijuana, but two states—Washingto...

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According to a new study by the Parents Television Council, underage girls are more likely to participate in exploitative scenes on television than adult women. For the study, the PTC studied 238 episodes of pr...

Teens are smoking tobacco in record numbers—record low. According to a recent report by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, only 5 percent of high school sophomores say they've s...

Teens who are linked with their parents on social networks feel closer to them in real life, too. That's the word from a new study from Brigham Young University (published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Socia...

"The Great Recession" is technically over now, and some researchers are asking how that economic malaise impacted us. Recent studies suggest that teens and young adults may indeed have been changed by the reces...

College students really dig math and science—or at least they do until the coursework starts catching up with them.Those are the findings of a study out of Berea College, a liberal arts school in Kentucky...

About 6 million children in the United States—or about one of every 10—have attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Some experts are wondering whether the mobile devices we tote around might have ...