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Adolescence

Teenager logs into social media app on phone

Your digital footprint can come back to haunt you, says media historian

Identity

Adolescent transgressions once confined to yearbooks are becoming immortal.

people protesting supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh

Teen ‘boys will be boys’: A brief history

Lifestyle & Belief

The sex talk: How a European country might help Americans get a handle on it

Global Politics
Teenagers film video in Argentina. A new study says that adolescents seem to have become more creative in visual arts.

A new study says your kids might not be so boring after all

Arts, Culture & Media

Teens, sharing more online, increasingly aware of maintaining privacy

Environment

U.S. teen pregnancies reaching record-low levels

Development & Education

As comprehensive sex education ramps up and the economy continues to sputter, more women are choosing not to get pregnant in their teens, sending the U.S. teen birth rate to low levels not seen in 70 years.

Know a risky teenager? Evolutionarily speaking, that’s good behavior

Development & Education

New research says that teens’ risky behavior, and their desire to be around same-aged peers, are the sorts of skills they need in order to get out of the nest and to lead productive lives.

Facebook frenemies bigger problem than predators

New study finds that cyber-bullying may be a bigger problem than sexual predators online.

Sierra Leone mental health

Health & Medicine

The challenges of delivering mental health care to the thousands of Sierra Leone adolescents who were forced to fight as soldiers during that country’s civil war.

The Definition of Marriage Is Shifting in the U.S.

It might surprise you to learn that today, 48 percent of first-time mothers are unmarried. This figure is not about a rise in teen pregnancy, though. It’s about a different demographic shift. The children of teen moms make up only 23 percent of all unmarried births. Sixty percent of the women having their first child […]