Setting up checking and savings accounts are important for teens, but those are just the beginning of the financial tools ...

Adolescence feels like a full-body, full-mind upheaval. It is when young people begin to wrestle with the profound question: Who am I? That is a foundational issue. Moreover, the answer does not ...

Thinking back on the most pivotal moments in my life makes me realize how profoundly different the outcomes were when I paused to really consider the decisions in front of me. Hard won wisdom has ...

While rejecting the notion that choosing to parent alone makes them feminist heroes, these moms of teens and tweens say they ...

Two years ago, Newark passed a historic ordinance allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in school board elections in that ...

Community-based organizations play a critical role in filling the gaps of Colorado’s school drug education, especially as ...

Lowering the voting age to 16 for local and statewide elections would give representation to more residents who are directly ...

Everyday sights and sounds quietly shape the choices people make, often without them realizing it. New research suggests that some individuals become especially influenced by these environmental cues, ...

FOUR teenage boys who smashed and vandalised a food bank in what police described as a "disgusting attack on a charity" have been ordered to take part in a behaviour-change scheme instead of being ...

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not participate in three decisions announced in an order list on Monday. The corporation Johnson & Johnson was the petitioner in two of the cases where Justice ...

The adolescent years are marked by significant cognitive development, where critical skills in memory and thinking are honed. However, a recent study has raised concerns about the impact of cannabis ...

This study is Pew Research Center’s latest effort to explore the landscape of teens and technology today. It focuses on social media and how the views and experiences of teens vary across sites. This ...