Jim Liebelt

Incoming college students have grown markedly more needy since the 2008 economic downturn.

It was bound to happen... Fisher Price introduces a portable DVR player for toddlers at this year's Consumer Electronics Show.

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Nearly one in four girls who gets the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine mistakenly thinks that her risk of getting other sexually transmitted...

A Dutch review of prior research reveals that the more physically active school-aged children are, the better they fare in the classroom.

...even if they didn't know it was going on in their home.

For the first time in a single week, more than 1 billion apps were downloaded. Buoyed by new devices given as Christmas gifts, 1.2 billion apps...

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Teens who express their own views in discussions with mom — even if they disagree — are more likely to resist peer pressure to use drugs or...

A new study finds that there is a strong association between childhood drinking and criminal activity.

By the time they're old enough to vote, roughly one in four Americans has had at least one criminal arrest. By age 23, the numbers rise to an...

Kids are not being exposed as much to unwanted sexual solicitations or porn on the Internet, according to a new study.

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We already knew that teens out-text the rest of us, but this year their mobile data consumption accelerated at an unprecedented rate as well.

Cigarette and alcohol use among teens is at the lowest level in decades, but marijuana use is on the rise, according to the latest "Monitoring the...

Depression and binge eating may go hand in hand among teenage girls as new research shows that teen girls who are depressed are twice as likely to...

In another sign of how technology can foster more communication, a new survey in Britain found that one in five parents use tech gadgets to talk to...

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