The latest news and issues related to youth culture are updated here on a regular basis. CPYU does not necessarily endorse the content and viewpoints expressed in these articles. They are posted here for purposes of keeping you informed as to what is happening in the world of youth culture. Each day we scour the Internet and a variety of publications from around the world in order to find the most relevant items. This page is updated weekdays (excluding holidays), so check back often for more news.

• YouTube users now upload 100 hours of video every minute - 5/21
• How do I stop my kids from multitasking? - 5/21
• Most parents unaware of teens' use of study drugs - 5/21
• Less sleep for teens means higher risk for car crashes - 5/21
• Teens trying booze more likely to binge later - 5/21
• 'Star Trek' sequel opens to $84.1 million in U.S. - 5/20
• More states consider raising minimum age for tobacco sales - 5/20
• Teen depression in girls linked to absent fathers in early childhood - 5/20
• 'Sexy Merida' pulled by Disney after backlash - 5/17
• How touchscreens are changing the world for kids - 5/17
• Study links adolescent bullies to criminal behavior later - 5/17
• Study raises concerns that teen athletes continue to play with concussion symptoms - 5/17
• Coming of age in a culture of fear - 5/17
• Teens who text and drive take even more risks - 5/17
• When helping hurts - 5/15
• 'Great Gatsby' dazzles with $51M, but can't catch 'Iron Man 3' - 5/13
• 1 in 3 teens are Facebook friends with their mothers - 5/10
• Teens get hallucinogenic high from popular flower - 5/10
• Push to end teens' distracted driving targets parents, peers - 5/10
• If the Internet gets less scary for teens, will it also be less cool? - 5/10
• Kenny Chesney logs lucky seventh #1 album on Billboard 200 - 5/9
• 16% of all high schoolers have been cyberbullying victims - 5/9
• Teenagers, social media, and terrorism: A threat level hard to assess - 5/9
• 2/3 of British children cannot concentrate at school because of sleep deprivation - 5/9
• Cigarettes are a gateway drug, say scientists - 5/9
• 20% of suicidal teens have access to guns at home - 5/8
• Does the world need erotic fiction for teenagers? - 5/8
• Teenagers feel more entitled than ever - 5/8
• 1 in 8 teens misusing Adderall for weight loss - 5/8
• The Internet isn't our problem - 5/8
• Vogue exposes industry's tricks to teenagers - 5/8
• 'Iron Man 3' coins $175.3M in second-biggest debut ever - 5/6
• 2 L.A. high schools, 2 views of Jason Collins - 5/3
• Always on? Study says 72% of U.S. gamers now play online - 5/3
• Nearly a quarter of teens drive while impaired - 5/3
• Michael Buble, Fantasia top the Billboard 200 chart - 5/3
• 5 apps every parent should be aware of - 5/3
• For many young adults, 'Fantasy Gap' between materialism, work ethic - 5/3
• When is too much too much? - 5/3
• Japanese teens dye hair red for new 'Ripe Tomato' hairdo - 5/1
• Preparing your teen for prom night - 5/1
• Reaction from parents varies to having morning-after pill accessible to teens - 5/1
• 'Promposals' put extra pressure on teens finding dates - 4/30
• Navigate summer camp options for teens - 4/30
• Using smartphones to track your teens - 4/30
• Humiliation in cyberspace deadly to teens - 4/30
• Teens review their favorite social apps - 4/30
• 'Diabulimia' is a life-threatening disorder for some teens - 4/30
• 'Pain and Gain' #1 at box office - 4/29
• Coke runs first all-digital effort, focusing on teens and mobile - 4/25
• Do American teens understand economics? - 4/25
• Nearly a quarter of teens drive while impaired - 4/25
• Teens (and their parents) spending hundreds on prom - 4/25
• Study finds many parents underestimate dangers of teens abusing prescription drugs - 4/25
• Thigh gap: What's behind a dangerous teen body image obsession - 4/25
• Ignore your dull family, says new Facebook Home ad - 4/24
• Doctors issue warning against dangerous cinnamon challenge trend - 4/23
• 'Oblivion' obliterates box office - 4/22
• Social media linked to poor academic performance - 4/22
• Teen discretionary spending climbing - 4/22
• Parents: A word about Instagram - 4/22
• Paramore earns first #1 album on Billboard 200 - 4/19
• Teen love really is complicated, research suggests - 4/19
• "American Idol": One of the girls goes home - 4/19
• More Millennials get house before getting married - 4/18
• Teens' brains are more sensitive to rewarding feedback from peers - 4/18
• Facebook and State Attorneys General team up to educate teens and parents about privacy - 4/18
• Teens and the redneck trend - 4/18
• Teens watch more mobile video than older peers - 4/18
• My kid wants to be "Liked" on Facebook - 4/17
• The reading brain in the digital age: The science of paper versus screens - 4/16
• Justin Timberlake earns 3rd week at #1, Band Perry debuts at #2 - 4/11
• Facebook still regins supreme with teens, but social media interest dwindling - 4/11
• Teens getting wise to dangers of tobacco, but still don't realize that marijuana is harmful - 4/11
• Younger consumers turn up digital music listening - 4/11
• Kids call the shots in snacks, breakfast - 4/10
• Online nearly matches TV in daily usage - 4/10
• More + More devices = More multitasking - 4/10
• Cult classic remkae 'Evil Dead' comes alive with $26M box-office triumph - 4/8
• Pre-college parental chat may reduce freshmen drinking - 4/8
• Luke Bryan scores upset at ACM Awards, but Miranda Lambert is big winner - 4/8
• It's an app world, the web just lives in it - 4/8
• How much your kids know about your family narrative matters - 4/8
• Limited access to mental health care for youth, teens - 4/8
• Teens picking Pandora over AM/FM Radio - 4/3
• Preventing repeat teen births - 4/3
• Too many teens still ignore the hazards of smoking - 4/3
• Peer pressure gone viral, a real threat to teens - 4/3
• Teens who get off to a poor start don't easily outgrow it - 4/3
• Job seeking teens might get a break this summer - 4/3
• Each family dinner adds up to benefits for adolescents - 4/2
• CDC: Repeat births among teens remains high - 4/2
• Pheed: The social network that's winning over teens from Facebook and Twitter - 4/2
• Younger teens unlikely to be sexually active - 4/2
• American teens getting early start on heart disease risk - 4/2
• Dating in middle school leads to higher dropout, drug-use rates - 4/2
• Are flavored cigars targeting teens? - 4/2
• Teen girls most likely to rely on mobile for Internet - 3/27
• Black henna temporary tattoos could leave permanent scars - 3/27
• Younger dads can't say no to entertaining their kids - 3/27
• The young and the creditless: Young adults eschew credit cards - 3/27
• Rash of fatal teen wrecks puts focus on parents - 3/26
• Children of divorce more likely to become smokers - 3/26
• Technology, not cars, interests teens - 3/26
• YouTube is teens' top social network - 3/21
• Legalized pot is a buzzkill for teens - 3/21
• Teens feel pressure to put on 'face of success' - 3/21
• Family dinners can bolster teens' mental health - 3/21
• Woman in Texas arrested for grooming teens to be hookers - 3/21
• Social media anxiety - 3/21
• Macy's to launch Teen Vogue apparel collection - 3/20
• Teens rule the web - 3/20
• 'Plural' generation presents unique challenges for marketers - 3/20
• Sexting habits of teens - 3/20
• Pre-college talk between parents and teens likely to lessen college drinking - 3/20
• Positive family relationships linked to healthy marriages - 3/20
• Texting while parenting: Can it wait? - 3/20
• Forget training bras, girls are buying lingerie - 3/19
• Teens aspire to wrong jobs, says study - 3/19
• CDC: 1 in 3 U.S. drivers read or send texts, emails - 3/19
• From teens' sleeping brains, the sound of growing maturity - 3/19
• Religious parents' divorce may cause children to leave the Church - 3/14
• Kids to marketers: We want tech gadgets, not toys - 3/14
• Kids need to step up physical activity, report says - 3/14
• One in four teens access the Internet primarily through mobile - 3/14
• Luke Bryan scores first #1 album on Billboard 200 chart - 3/13
• Magical weekend for "Oz the Great and Powerful" - 3/11
• 'American Idol' top 10 revealed - 3/8
• 'Porn literacy': Is this the future of sex ed? - 3/8
• Will Facebook by bye-bye when teens do? - 3/8
• Teens need at least 8 hours of sleep - 3/8
• Parents key to teens' safe driving - 3/8
• Police seeing 'fake weed' usage rise among teens - 3/8
• NYC uses shame in new teen pregnancy campaign - 3/8
• How to stop the bullies - 3/6
• Rural teens at high risk for pregnancy - 3/6
• College degree required by increasing number of companies - 3/6
• Kids' suspensions renew debate over zero tolerance - 3/6
• NYC mayor to target teens wearing loud earbuds - 3/6
• The truth about their college aspirations - 3/6
• Deaths surge among youngest drivers - 3/5
• More than a quarter of teens in relationships report "digital abuse" - 3/5
• Unprepared for college - 3/5
• Insight into how the 'Digital Generation' behaves online - 3/5
• Are Millennials a "Lost Generation"? - 3/5
• Despite being #1, 'Jack the Giant Slayer' is 2013's first major box-office flop - 3/4
• Why teens are tiring of Facebook - 3/4
• National Day of Unplugging - 3/1
• And the Oscar goes to... - 2/25
• Parents' average week on the web - 2/25
• Pheed is feeding teens' thirst for social media - 2/22
• Today's bullied teens subject to 'sticks and stones' online, too - 2/20
• Studying the effects of playing violent video games - 2/19
• GPA can be contagious among high school students - 2/19
• It was a 'Good Day to Die Hard' at the weekend box office - 2/18
• Hot trend for lingerie stores? Targeting teens - 2/15
• Facebook social graph search results limited for teens - 2/15
• Hyper-parents can make college aged children depressed - 2/15
• 'Sleep texting' is growing problem among teens - 2/14
• Talking to teens about dating doesn't have to be awkward - 2/14
• Spring break, teens, and online reputation - 2/14
• Josh Groban earns third #1 album on Billboard 200 chart - 2/14
• Teaching teens that bullies can change reduces aggression in school, study shows - 2/14
• Marketed to teens, energy drink sales poised to nearly double over the next five years - 2/14
• Toys go retro, virtual, and construction crazy - 2/12
• Who's feeling stressed? Young adults, new survey shows - 2/11
• #1 'Identity Thief' steals $36M weekend at box office - 2/11
• 55th annual Grammy Awards winners - 2/11
• Justin Bieber scores fifth #1 album on Billboard 200 - 2/7
• Teens who text too much are losing speaking skills - 2/7
• Teen health tip: Consider sharing your secrets - 2/5
• Chick lit 'harms body image', study finds - 2/5
• Alcohol putting teens at sex risk - 2/5
• FDA OK with college's Plan B contraceptive vending machine - 2/5
• Facebook: Teens might be so over us - 2/5
• Teens and young adults who binge drink risk negative brain effects later in life - 2/5
• More teens are in no rush to get behind the wheel - 2/5
• Box office report: 'Warm Bodies' alive and well with $20 million - 2/5
• Budweiser's Clydesdale wins Ad Meter by a nose - 2/4
• New study says teens and energy drinks are a bad combo - 2/1
• Feeling bullied by parents about weight - 2/1
• Music sales skyrocket after Super Bowl halftime performances - 2/1
• FTC gives app developers new privacy guidelines - 2/1
• Gary Allan earns first #1 album on Billboard 200 - 2/1
• Teens more likely to drink if their BFFs do - 1/29
• High school grad rate highest since '76 - 1/29
• Black Ops 2 was 2012's most popular Xbox LIVE game - 1/29
• The family that dines together - 1/29
• The rise of eSports elevates professional gaming's profile - 1/28
• The new workplace currency - 1/28
• Today's young adults will never pay off their credit card debts - 1/28
• How Facebook can make you envious - 1/28
• 'Hansel and Gretel' #1 at box office with so-so $19M - 1/28
• One-third of dating teens report violence in their relationships - 1/21
• 'Mama' scares up monster victory at box office - 1/21
• Teens say okay to getting health info in texts - 1/18
• Study shows exercise has positive effect on teens' self-esteem, mental health - 1/18
• Girls and body image tips - 1/18
• Does college play a role in media consumption? - 1/18
• Even amicable divorces take toll on children and their religious attendance - 1/18
• Digital households keep kids connected - 1/17
• Could responsibilities help prevent teenage suicide? - 1/17
• Facebook dials up teens, cheapskates with free calling - 1/17
• Children, teens, young adults focus of mental health provisions in Obama's gun plan - 1/17
• Division I schools spend more on athletes than education - 1/16
• Energy drink-related ER visits doubled in 4 years - 1/16
• High schools offer day-care services for teen parents to prevent dropouts - 1/16
• Chris Tomlin scores first #1 album on Billboard 200 chart - 1/16
• Teenage bedrooms: The forbidden frontier - 1/15
• More money from parents = lower college grades, study finds - 1/15
• The mobile phone is hugely personal, especially for teens and Millennials - 1/15
• Prepaid debit cards no cause for teens to scream - 1/15
• Texas school can force teenagers to wear locator chip - 1/15
• 30% of teens meet online 'friends' offline - 1/14
• 10 over-the-counter medicines abused by teens - 1/14
• Apple is done, say teens - 1/14
• 'Zero Dark Thirty' wins weekend box office battle - 1/14
• Gadget allows parents to see how teens drive - 1/14
• 2013 Golden Globe winners - 1/14
• Snapchat app has parents of teens concerned - 1/11
• Study reveals rocketing sense of entitlement on U.S. campuses - 1/11
• National survey reveals parents' deep concern about protecting kids from violence - 1/11
• College kids favor multiplatform viewing - 1/11
• Is Apple's iPhone no longer cool to teens? - 1/10
• Study shows many teens at risk for suicidal behavior despite mental health help - 1/10
• Colorado senator proposes teens to drink with parental supervision - 1/10
• 'Les Miserables' soundtrack hits #1 on Billboard 200 chart - 1/10
• Do teens love Tumblr more than Facebook? - 1/10
• Binge drinking a serious problem among girls - 1/9
• CBS sells out Super Bowl: $4M per spot - 1/9
• Nvidia announces 'Shield' gaming system - 1/8
• Mom's iPhone contract livens debate on teched-up teens - 1/8
• Bullying over food allergies - 1/8
• Lasting legacy of recessions: Behavior problems among teens - 1/8
• Consumer expert warns of celebrity debit card marketed to teens - 1/8
• Second concussion can be devastating, even after clear CT scan, study finds - 1/4
• There's no avoiding Google+ - 1/4
• California teen allegedly drugged parents' milkshakes over Internet access - 1/4
• Heavy drinking, pot use tied to teen brain changes - 1/4
• 3 simple rules for a healthy media diet - 1/4
• Teens without Internet are 'educationally disadvantaged' - 1/4
• Asian teens wearing fake braces as status symbol - 1/4/2013
• Increasing number of teens in the US disregard pot dangers - 12/21
• Instagram apologizes to users: We won't sell your photos - 12/20
• Youth increasingly seeking new salvation - 12/18
• How social media is destroying productivity - 12/14
• Children and adults gunned down in Connecticut school massacre - 12/14
• US gamers race to mobile - 12/14
• Suicide risk in teens highest after parents' attempt - 12/14
• Internet radio and On-Demand music services rise - 12/14
• Binge-eating teens more likely to use drugs - 12/14
• Millennials keep connected on ever-more devices - 12/13
• Depressed teens more likely to make art, study says - 12/13
• Teens text more while driving than parents think - 12/13
• Wiz Khalifa and Ke$ha debut in Top 10, but Taylor Swift moves back to #1 - 12/13
• Whitney Houston beats Gangnam Syle as top Google search of 2012 - 12/12
• Teen fighting declines in U.S., Europe - 12/12
• Urban Outfitters' curse-word filled holiday catalog sparks outrage - 12/12
• Most teens with mental disorders not on meds - 12/12
• Teenagers tell researchers it's a cruel, cruel online world - 12/10
• 'Skyfall' reclaims top spot at box office - 12/10
• Teen dating violence affects well-being in adulthood - 12/10
• U.S. kids continue to look forward to "iHoliday" - 12/10
• Obese children more vulnerable to food advertising - 12/10
• Teens text more while driving than parents think - 12/10
• Teen behavior problems, not depression, tied to lower grades - 12/10
• Young teens in U.S. use mobile devices for homework - 12/10
• Teen ADHD may raise risk for adult problems - 12/10
• Blazing sales for newest 'Call of Duty' - 12/10
• Are your Facebook friends stressing you out? (Yes) - 12/10