Tag Archive for trends and studies
2014 Banished Words List
Lake Superior State University Banished Words List dates back to Dec. 31, 1975
Test Could Predict Which Teen Boys Get...
High cortisol levels and mild depression symptoms were up to 14 times more likely to suffer depression
Video Games May Improve Learning Skills...
They’d like to match different characteristics of dyslexia with video games that target specific deficits
Violent Video Games Can Stunt Moral...
those who played..for three hours or longer each day were detached from the outside world
Used iPhone With Flappy Bird Selling for...
The starting price was $650. Within hours, it jumped to $99,900, with 74 bids placed
UAE Parents Don’t Spend Even an...
In a broader context, family time or the lack of it can shape society
Teens with Mental Health Issues Have...
Adolescent girls with a major mental health disorder are three times more likely to get pregnant than those without a mental illness
teens are the worst monetizing...
teens may be cheap to find on Facebook..but they generate least revenue-per-click in return
Welfare Programs: Discourage Marriage...
Lets bring fathers into the home.. benefits of marriage..reducing the penalties against marriage
Is hostility toward religion on the rise...
Pew Study: Gov’t Restrictions on Religion Increased 87.5% From 2009-2012
Smoking, Sniffing, Snorting, and Sipping
Teens Go to Great Length for a High
Three Major Faith and Culture Trends for...
Millennials trust institutions more than older Gen does….excpet for the Church!
Teen Girls Twice as Likely to Suffer...
“The good news is that many of these problems do resolve,”
Happy 10th Anniversary, D.C. School...
DCOSP found that students in the voucher program had a 91 percent graduation rate
JUST HOW MUCH IMPACT DO ABSTINENCE AND...
Sexually active at 14..get pregnant have a significantly higher chance of having an abortion
Brazil’s Latest Clash With Its Urban...
“a political act, to tell society we belong to it, that we’re not on the margins of it.”
THE NEXT GEN CONTENT REBOOT
Young people expect something new and different from media
Instagram Fastest-Growing App Among Top...
Instagram also outpaced Twitter, the No. 10 app that grew 36% to 30.7 million last year
What are teenagers sharing on social...
For generations parents of teenagers have wanted to know about “the secret lives of teenagers”
students caught snorting Smarties candy
Portsmouth Middle School parents received an email late last week, warning them that the kids were snorting the candy
Disney Star Bella Candie’s ads...
“Candie’s isn’t selling clothes, it’s selling sex and teaching young girls to act seductively,”
Japan’s Birthrate is Plummeting
Why have so many young Japanese given up on getting married?
U.S: “Generation Child-Free”
Millennials Want Children, But They’re Not Planning on Them
From the producers of Jersey shore &...
How would you fix this? Jesus Duck Tape or Whisky?
MTV: Youth Foodie Culture
“Top Chef” meets “Real World” for the NEW culinary cable channel competition, “House of Food,”
The Teen ‘Selfie Olympics’
Causing Teenagers To Take Insane Pictures Of Themselves
Alaska closer to becoming 3rd state to...
The proposal similar to one passed in Colorado legalizes the growing, buying and consumption of marijuana
Kids of the past vs internet generation
How 3 Different Generations Use The Internet
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone unveils...
Questions can be posed and answered with photographs
Flashback: Homeschooled Infographic
How American Homeschoolers Measure Up
Surprise Reasons Kids Cheat
… laziness of today’s students, their lack of a moral compass
Watch Out for Walking Zombies
Most Cell-Phone Owners Experience ‘Distracted Walking’
Majority of Porn in U.S. is Viewed on...
52% was viewed through a mobile device of that 14.7 billion visitors in 2013, That’s 1.68 million visitors an hour
One-third of Americans don’t believe...
Six in ten Americans believe “humans and other living things have evolved over time.”
The Power of Political Messages in...
Study: Liberal Movies Influence People More Than Ads, News
Asian street fashion
“Fashion in Asia is evolving as a result of access to ideas and wealth”
Teens are Snorting Spices
“Don’t fall into peer pressure because everyone’s going to remember you’re that person that did a dumb thing.”
UK: Why are so many middle-class...
youngsters are conversing in..clumsy rap-speak derived, variously, from the West Indies, Mumbai, MTV and American reality TV starsDailyMail on Facebook
Christmas is a Commercial Holiday for...
1 in 4 American adults (26 percent), Dec. 25 is simply a cultural holiday, not a religious holy day
Teen addiction to pornography a growing...
Children aged 12 to 17 are one of the largest consumer groups of online porn
verbal hostility
Yelling, threatening parents harm teens’ mental health
TV Is Still A Bloodbath
Hollywood…portrayed 101 acts of gun violence about a week before the anniversary of the school shooting in Newtown
Teens Love Portable Pot Vaporizers
Pocket hookahs proliferate with young marijuana users
7-Year-Old Boy in India Tortured,...
Previous threats and persecution of his family indicate he was targeted because of his family’s faith
70% of these digital natives ...
They’re bringing up relevant questions for young Christians whose faith practices take them onto their phones and laptops
Teens’ social media can hurt...
30 percent of admissions officers say that they had Googled an applicant or visited their social networking profile
Top 10 Artists Shazam Expects To Break...
Based on the songs over 400 million users who have Shazamed it? Here’s the list
“Digital (Millennial) Bookending”...
Millennials seeking out hands-on, tech-free maker experiences by research & documenting the before & after
Five Trends For 2014
Teens setting the standard for what’s hot and what’s not?
PORNOGRAPHY’S STUNNING IMPACT
42% of male college students regularly visit porn sites, one in five feel controlled by their own sexual desires
TV Lowers Empathy in Children
Too much time in front of the television can blunt young children’s ability to accept and understand others
Youth & The Changing American...
American households have never been more diverse, more surprising, more baffling
Students Tweet About Adderall A Lot
40% students think abusing prescription drugs is acceptable because they’re “safer” than recreational drugs
Most family break-ups involve unmarried...
Epidemic of family breakdown..unmarried parents, you’re four times more likely to split up than married parents
Australian parents hit by rising costs...
Weekly costs of raising teenagers (or generation Z) was now about $258 per week or more than $13,400 a year
UK: Women Having More Types Of Sex Than...
cultural shift: so many women (aged 16–44) to admit to same-sex activity
Knock out Game Attacks Elderly
Teens Randomly Target, Beat Up Senior Citizens
Study of Young Parents Highlights Links...
African-American fathers were exposed to everyday incidents of racism and discrimination — a highly stressful experience
Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD
French child psychiatrists, view ADHD as a medical condition that has psycho-social and situational causes
Thanksgiving By The Numbers
Americans Will Spend the GDP of Sri Lanka on Thanksgiving Weekend
The Father Absence Crisis in America ...
“24 million children in America grow up without their father at home.”
TwitCasting Is More Popular Than...
Fifty percent of TwitCasting’s users are teenagers, including 1.33 million Japanese college student
Hearing Loss Is Up Among Teens
One in six teens has some degree of preventable hearing loss, but few parents warn their kids to turn down their iPods
The No. 1 Killer of Teens in the U.S.
According to an alarming report by the Centers for Disease Control
Teens as young as 11 years old are...
Young teens, girls age 11-14 sending sexually explicit photos on the rise
NYPD Stats: 70% Of Shooting Suspects In...
If you’re black, you are almost 25 times more likely to be shot in New York City than a white person —…
Flashback: Smoking & Drinking Teens...
Students who had never had alcohol or smoked cigarettes were five to six times more likely to have higher levels of happiness
‘Knockout’ Game Fears Spread
Examples Of Troubling ‘Knockout’ Game Popping Up All Over
Study Shows No Harmful Impact From...
Watching TV for 3 h or more at 5 years predicted a 0.13 point increase (95% CI 0.03 to 0.24) in conduct…
Spirituality Improves Outcomes for Teens...
The adolescents’ capacity to become more spiritual, and overcome self-centeredness, evidences the malleability of personality and belief orientation
Teens Have Less Impulse Control When...
…this might make them more likely to commit crimes
What Screen Time is Doing to Our Kids
Here’s What A Constantly Plugged-In Life Is Doing To Kids’ Bodies
KNOCKOUT Game is Back!
One of the most horrifying teenage trends I’ve ever seen
Condom Culture? Why Teens Aren’t...
The percentage of young people using condoms has stalled, while STD rates are on the rise
New shopping PatternsTeens Flee...
Abercrombie, American Eagle and Aeropostale Inc. all are projected to have sales declines in the year ending in January after gains in…
Gun Violence Rampant In Movies For Teens
Violence seen in modern movies rated PG-13 even exceeded that in films rated R for adults in 2012
Flashback: Family Dinner Benefits
More frequent family dinners related to fewer emotional and behavioral problems, greater emotional well-being…
Teens Mirror Negative Features of Mom...
Mothers who display high levels of conflict with friends may signal to their children that such behavior is acceptable, or normative
teenagers are putting the brakes on...
Driving is helping him make the leap from a carefree kid to a responsible young man
82% Of Children Repeat Sexualized lyrics...
Parents said pop acts were teaching girls they would be “judged on their looks, not their achievements or personality”
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