Smartphones are bad for some teens, not all

A review of 36 studies published between 2002 and 2017 indicates that teens use digital communication to enhance relationships by sharing intimacy, displaying affection and arranging meet-ups and activities. A 2009 longitudinal study of more than 1,300 children and teens also showed that children aged …

Meanwhile, since 2000, rates of teen binge drinking have fallen by half. With the culture so focused on keeping children safe, many teens seem incredulous that extreme forms of violence against kids can still happen – and yet so many adults are unwilling to address the issue. “We call on our national and …

A memorial to honour Canadian teen Amanda Todd, who took her life in 2012 after posting a video on YouTube saying she had been blackmailed by an online predator. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward). The days of viewing bullying as “kidsbeing kids” are long gone. As former U.S. President …

But surely they would be respectful to teenagers who had just watched their classmates get murdered, right? Nope! While some GOP figures like Florida Senator Marco Rubio have been relatively restrained, some right-wing media websites and personalities and tried to discredit the Parkland shooting …

“Some supervisors speak of them as kids instead of as students,” he says. Still, he adds, most CERN researchers find that teens rise to the challenge when given work assignments. For some, bringing adolescents into the lab is an effective type of public outreach. Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, a chemist at …

The teens were welcomed into the gun-friendly halls of power, but the students’ top goal — a ban on assault-style rifles such as the weapon used in the … One sign read, “Remember the men who value the NRA over children’s lives” and then listed Republicans in Florida’s congressional delegation.

A group of teenagers who say they are desperate for some action on gun control staged a silent “lie-in” outside the White House Monday, in the wake of … The event was organized over Facebook by a group called Teens for Gun Reform, which listed their intentions in a post: “By doing this, we will make a …

These were the main messages of “What Teenagers are Learning From Online Porn,” a recent New York Times story by Maggie Jones. It quickly became one … The Times article, however, cited a 2016 survey that suggested most parents are totally unaware of their kids‘ porn experiences. Jones called this …

I used to think of myself as a cool mom. My house has always been where my kidsand their friends gather, so it was easy to think that had something to do with me, my tattoos, and my Nirvana T-shirts. But all of that changed when my kids hit their teenyears, and I discovered that being “cool” came at far too …

Starting this year, ‘RAD Kids‘ — under the auspices of the nonprofit North Jersey Pride — will host monthly meetings at St. George’s Episcopal Church in Maplewood for “gender-creative kids” 12 and under. They have also started a new group, ‘RAD Teens‘, for ages 13-18, which will also meet monthly at St.