Teenagers

Measles outbreaks have caused a renewed interest in vaccinations, including among teens whose family opposed them when they were children.

Adam Mosseri, the head of Facebook-owned Instagram, admitted in an article for the Telegraph, Monday, that Instagram has failed to protect its users from posts which promote self-harm and even suicide.

Facebook has reportedly been paying teenagers to install a “Facebook Research” VPN, which allows the social network company to “suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity,” while skirting Apple’s developer rules. 

An internal note from Facebook shows the company using a viral polling app as a “psychological trick” to attract teenagers to the platform.

A data breach at TeenSafe, a service which allows parents to monitor their children’s texts, phone calls, location, and web history, has exposed the data of thousands of teenagers and their parents.

Research by University of Maryland sociologist Dana R. Fisher has revealed that about than 10% of the participants in the main “March for Our Lives” anti-gun protest in Washington, DC, on Saturday were under 18 years old.

The number of teenagers having sex during their high school years has dropped over the last two years and been in decline for a decade, according to a report.

According to a report from the Economist published last week, anxiety and depression rates in teenagers have skyrocketed over the past two decades.

Two Wisconsin teenagers are being charged as adults for allegedly gang-raping two girls inside a garage where one victim claimed the suspects forced her to perform oral sex.

TEL AVIV – Five knife-wielding teens on the prowl for “scary clowns” were detained by police in the southern Israeli town of Ashkelon Sunday night as the nationwide trend continues to sweep the country.

Teenagers are ditching Facebook in favor of other social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat, according to a new report.

A flash mob of an estimated 500 teens threw bottles, jumped on cars, and taunted police officers in Philadelphia Sunday night, police say.

A 16-year-old girl was robbed and pushed onto the subway tracks in New York City after a group of teens confronted her, police said.

Two teenagers robbed a nine-year-old boy of his cell phone at knifepoint in New York.

Next week, three young black women will stand before a Philadelphia judge for savagely beating a homeless white man to death with a hammer and a chair leg last April, all because the 10-year-old son of one of the women lied and said the homeless man struck him.

Two teenagers, boyfriend and girlfriend, are now joking that they have an “electric love” because they were struck by lightning while holding hands in Claremont on Thursday.

On Thursday, the NAACP in Grand Prairie, Texas, staged a protest to defend Demoyas Baker, 27, a worker at the Dalworth Recreational Center who was arrested because he allegedly showed two teenagers a gay child sex tape featuring two 12-year-old boys.

On Friday, The New York Times seemed completely bewildered by the plummeting rate of teenagers in the workforce. The Times observes, “Since 2000, the share of 16-to-19-year-olds who are working has plummeted by 40 percent, with fewer than a third of American teenagers in a job last summer.”