School’s out. Teens are bored. And the siren call of social media and video games beckons. Parents and caregivers bungling through new summer routines, or lack thereof, have long sought to balance the ...

Everywhere you look there's a new story about how "kids these days" are addicted to screens. It's easy to feel like a lot of this discourse is overhyped, until you start talking to teachers. They are ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can ...

Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media is a new documentary that exposes the real-life consequences of the algorithms of Big Tech companies and their impact on children and teens. In 2022, ...

There’s that nagging voice again: “Put the phone away. No, really this time.” But we don’t; 84 percent of Americans say that they are online either several times a day or “almost constantly.” “On your ...

Mel Robbins said parents' phone habits influenced their children's behavior. New York Times best-selling author and podcast host Mel Robbins has some tips to help families break free from a phone ...

An organization in Chicago is trying to apply a strategy used for fighting drug addiction to reduce gun violence. By Shaila Dewan Each year, the Chicago Police Department seizes about 10,000 illegal ...

Lev Facher covers the U.S. addiction and overdose crisis. WERNERSVILLE, Pa. — To make sense of the reds and greens dancing across a computer monitor displaying a scale image of a human brain, one ...