Odds are your adolescent has already encountered online pornography. Your role is to openly address it, scholars say. By Matt Richtel The average American first sees online pornography at age 12 ...

Teen drug use continued to fall in 2024, extending a dramatic decline spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic that experts expected would reverse now that the acute phase of the global crisis is well over.

A Chicago teenager is in a coma and three of his family members are dead after the group was shot at while vacationing in Mexico last week, according to the U.S. State Department and local reports ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand teens’ use of digital devices, social media and other online platforms. The Center conducted an online survey of 1,391 U.S. teens from ...

Following a pair of lawsuits alleging that chatbots caused a teen boy's suicide, groomed a 9-year-old girl, and caused a vulnerable teen to self-harm, Character.AI (C.AI) has announced a separate ...

AI chatbots pushed a Texas teen to start cutting himself and even brought up kids killing their parents because they were limiting his screen time, a shocking new lawsuit claims. The 15-year-old ...

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Two Texas parents filed a ...

A pair of teen brothers slept on the front porch of their Detroit house for months as the temperatures plummeted — despite their parents’ best efforts to get them to come inside. Mounting ...

"I just have no hope for your parents," a bot on Character.AI allegedly told an autistic Texas teen getty Artificial intelligence company Character.AI is being sued after parents claimed a bot on ...

Character.AI, the artificial intelligence company that has been the subject of two lawsuits alleging its chatbots inappropriately interacted with underage users, said teenagers will now have a ...

Nothing Gallery app for all Nothing and CMF phones has been released on the Google Play Store and here’s what it looks like. Nothing Gallery app, that was previewed a few months back in the ...

Legislation that would enlist the federal government in reforming the troubled-teen industry is heading to President Joe Biden’s desk. The Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act cleared the House ...