Jim Liebelt's Youth Culture Watch

What's Hot? 3/29/13

Trending Today on Twitter - 3/29/13
     1. #GIJoeRetaliation
     2. Happy Good Friday
     3. #RememberWhenEverybody
     4. #TGIF
     5. #MyTop5Bands
     6. #music
     7. #business
     8. Now Playing
     9. Goodreads
    10. North Korea
Source: Twitter

Popular Today on Bing - 3/29/13
    1. Kirsten Dunst Brad Pitt
    2. Duck Dynasty
    3. New Dolphin Logo
    4. Colt McCoy Rumor
    5. Newtown Shooting
    6. Justin Bieber
    7. Sofia Vergara Blonde
    8. Barbara Walters Retiring
Source: Bing

iTunes Top 10 Singles - 3/29/13
     1. Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - Pink
     2. Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
     3. When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars
     4. Stay (feat. Mikky Ekko) - Rihanna
     5. Suit & Tie (feat. Jay Z) - Justin Timberlake
     7. The Way (feat. Mac Miller) - Ariana Grande
     8. Feel This Moment (feat. Christina Aguilera) - Pitbull
     9. Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
    10. Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
    Mirrors - Justin Timberlake
Source: Apple iTunes

Top 10 TV Shows in Prime Time - Week Ending 3/24/13
     1. NCIS
     2. Dancing with the Stars
     3. NCIS: Los Angeles
     4. American Idol - Wed.
     5. American Idol - Thurs.
     6. Criminal Minds
     7. Castle
     8. CSI
     9. 60 Minutes
    10. Survivor: Caramoan
 Source: Nielsen Co

Most Viewed YouTube Videos  - Week Ending 3/29/13
    1. The Wolverine - International Trailer
    2. Sergio Garcia climbs a tree to hit one-handed second shot
    3. Battlefield 4 - Official 17 Minutes "Fishing in Baku"
    4. Babe Ruth vs Lance Armstrong. Epic Rap Battles
    5. Miedos Y Fobias
Source: YouTube

Top 5 Movies - Week Ending 3/28/13
    1. The Croods
    2. Olympus Has Fallen
    3. Oz: The Great and Powerful
    4. The Call
    5. Admission
Source: Variety

CDC: 110+ Million Venereal Infections in U.S.

According to new data released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 19.7 million new venereal infections in the United States in 2008, bringing the total number of existing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the U.S. at that time to 110,197,000.

The STI study referenced by the CDC estimated that 50 percent of the new infections in 2008 occurred among people in the 15-to-24 age bracket. In fact, of the 19,738,800 total new STIs in the United States in 2008, 9,782,650 were among Americans in the 15-to-24 age bracket.

“CDC’s new estimates show that there are about 20 million new infections in the United States each year, costing the American healthcare system nearly $16 billion in direct medical costs alone,” said a CDC fact sheet.

The most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States in 2008 was human papillomavirus (HPV), which caused 14,100,000 estimated infections that year.

Source: CNSNews.com
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cdc-110197000-venereal-infections-us-nation-creating-new-stis-faster-new-jobs-or

Each Family Dinner Adds Up to Benefits for Adolescents

Parents have heard it for years: Family dinners help kids avoid risky behaviors and may even help them in school.

But new research shows that the more frequent these dinners, the better the adolescents fare emotionally, says new research published this week in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

"The effect doesn't plateau after three or four dinners a week," says co-author Frank Elgar, an associate professor of psychiatry at McGill University in Montréal. "The more dinners a week the better."

With each additional dinner, researchers found fewer emotional and behavioral problems, greater emotional well-being, more trusting and helpful behaviors toward others and higher life satisfaction, regardless of gender, age or family economics. The study was based on a nationally representative sample of 26,069 Canadian adolescents ages 11 to 15 in 2010.

While researchers see a correlation, they can't say family dinners caused the benefits. "We don't know if family dinners contribute to mental health, or if mental health and other behavioral problems cause some teenagers to avoid the family dinner," Elgar says.

Source: USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/24/family-dinner-adolescent-benefits/2010731/

Parent-Child Violence Leads to Teen Dating Violence

Teens today are involved in intimate relationships at a much younger age and often have different definitions of what is acceptable behavior in a relationship. Violence is something that is all too common and according to researchers at Iowa State it is a reflection of the relationships teens have with their parents or their parent's partner.

"It is true that if you grow up in a violent household you have a higher likelihood of being in a violent relationship," said Brenda Lohman, lead author and an associate professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State University.

The research focused on psychological violence instead of physical violence. Lohman and her colleagues discovered that psychological violence between a parent and child was more significant than a child witnessing violence between two adults in the home.

"If the parent is more aggressive toward the child, the child is more likely to be in relationships where they're being victimized or perpetrating violence against their partner a few years or even a decade later," Lohman said.

The study is one of the first to examine patterns of violence over three decades to see how children exposed to psychological violence and family stress were affected in relationships later in life.

The study is published in the April issue of the Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Source: ScienceDaily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130325160237.htm

Middle-School Dating Leads to Higher Dropout, Drug-Use Rates

Students who date in middle school have significantly worse study skills, are four times more likely to drop out of school and report twice as much alcohol, tobacco and marijuana use than their single classmates, according to new research from the University of Georgia.

"Romantic relationships are a hallmark of adolescence, but very few studies have examined how adolescents differ in the development of these relationships," said Pamela Orpinas, study author and professor in the College of Public Health and head of the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior.

Orpinas followed a group of 624 students over a seven-year period from sixth to 12th grade. Each year, the group completed a survey indicating whether they had dated and reported the frequency of different behaviors, including the use of drugs and alcohol. Their teachers completed questionnaires about the students' academic efforts.

"In our study, we found four distinct trajectories," Orpinas said. "Some students never or hardly ever reported dating from middle to high school, and these students had consistently the best study skills according to their teachers. Other students dated infrequently in middle school but increased the frequency of dating in high school. We also saw a large number of students who reported dating since sixth grade."

"At all points in time, teachers rated the students who reported the lowest frequency of dating as having the best study skills and the students with the highest dating as having the worst study skills," according to the study.

The results of the study were published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence.

Source: ScienceDaily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130315151046.htm

Teens' Mobile Access to the Internet is Pervasive

A new report from Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project finds that smartphone adoption among American teens has increased substantially and mobile access to the internet is pervasive.

One in four teens are “cell-mostly” internet users, who say they mostly go online using their phone and not using some other device such as a desktop or laptop computer.

Seventy-eight percent of teens now have a cell phone, and almost half (47%) of them own smartphones. That translates into 37% of all teens who have smartphones, up from just 23% in 2011.

“The nature of teens’ internet use has transformed dramatically — from stationary connections tied to shared desktops in the home to always-on connections that move with them throughout the day,” said Mary Madden, Senior Researcher for the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and co-author of the report. “In many ways, teens represent the leading edge of mobile connectivity, and the patterns of their technology use often signal future changes in the adult population.”

Source: Pew Internet
http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-and-Tech.aspx

Children of Divorce More Likely to Become Smokers

New research from the University of Toronto was not able to prove that children of divorced parents turn to cigarettes as a coping mechanism from lingering childhood trauma. But researchers did find that people whose parents had divorced when they were children were at a significantly increased risk of initiating smoking.

Of the 19,000 U.S adults included in the study, the odds of having smoked 100 or more cigarettes increased by 48 and 39 percent for sons and daughters of separated or divorced parents, respectively. The research suggests that experiencing a parents' divorce, in and of itself, is a risk factor for future smoking.

Source: The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/03/study-children-of-divorce-more-likely-to-become-smokers/274043/

Fatal Teen Wrecks Puts Focus on Parents

Twenty teenagers dead in five automobile crashes in five states. All within one week.

A rash of deadly wrecks in Illinois, Texas, Ohio, Indiana and North Dakota, is a jarring reminder that vehicle crashes are still the No. 1 killer of U.S. teenagers, and that teen road deaths are rising fastest of all as the improving economy draws more traffic.

The crashes hammer home an overlooked reality of teenage driving: The risk of a teen driver dying in a crash rises sharply with teen passengers in the car. Details vary in the recent crashes, but each involved a teen driver with teen passengers. That fact highlights both the pivotal role of parenting in the treacherous maze that is learning to drive, and the need for states to do more in implementing stronger graduated driver licensing (GDL) programs that phase in privileges for novice drivers as they gain experience, some safe driving advocates say.

Source: USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/03/14/fatal-teen-wrecks-puts-focus-on-parents/1989319/

What's Hot? 3/22/13

Trending Today on Twitter - 3/22/13
     1. #NickyFlash
     2. #threewordstoliveby
     3. #WhyISmile
     4. #ImSoUsedToHearing
     5. #TwitterIn5Words
     6. #VoteWhatMakesYouBeautiful
     7. Now Playing
     8. New Mexico
     9. Harvard
    10. Spring Breakers
Source: Twitter

Popular Today on Bing - 3/22/13
    1. Dennis Rodman Secret
    2. Carrie Ann Inaba Father
    3. Octomom Fraud
    4. HBO Show Ends
    5. Carnival Cruises Cancelled
    6. Jon Hamm Rumor
    7. Bob Newhart Big Bang
    8. Patrick Stewart Wedding
Source: Bing

iTunes Top 10 Singles - 3/22/13
     1. Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - Pink
     2. Suit & Tie (feat. Jay Z) - Justin Timberlake
     3. When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars
     4. Stay (feat. Mikky Ekko) - Rihanna
     5. Mirrors - Justin Timberlake
     6. Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
     7. Feel This Moment (feat. Christina Aguilera) - Pitbull
     8. #thatPOWER (feat. Justin Bieber) - will.i.am
     9. Harlem Shake - Baauer
    10. Started from the Bottom - Drake
Source: Apple iTunes

Top 10 TV Shows in Prime Time - Week Ending 3/17/13
     1. The Big Bang Theory
     2. Person of Interest
     3. American Idol - Wed.
     4. NCIS
     5. Two and a Half Men
     6. NCIS: Los Angeles
     7. American Idol - Thurs.
     8. Elementary
     9. Bachelor: After Final Rose
    10. The Bachelor
 Source: Nielsen Co

Most Viewed YouTube Videos  - Week Ending 3/22/13
    1. Guy Gets Punched By Street Performer
    2. Guy Picks Nose On TNT And Owns It
    3. Introducing Samsung Galaxy S4
    4. Pitbull - Feel This Moment Featuring Christina Aguilera
    5. Preguntas De Twitter 4
Source: YouTube

Top 5 Movies - Week Ending 3/21/13
    1. Oz: The Great and Powerful
    2. The Call
    3. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
    4. Jack the Giant Slayer
    5. Identity Thief
Source: Variety

What's Hot? 3/15/13

Trending Today on Twitter - 3/15/13
     1. #TheCallMovie
     2. #NothingFeelsBetterThan
     3. #HowToGetOutOfAConversation
     4. #ASOT600KL
     5. #10ThingsIGetAlot
     6. Rob Portman
     7. #idesofmarch
     8. Galaxy S4
     9. Paul Ryan
    10. Pope Francis
Source: Twitter

Popular Today on Bing - 3/15/13
    1. Medieval Knight Found
    2. Moonshiners Star Charged
    3. Chelsea Clinton Apartment
    4. Demi Lovato Haircut
    5. Julianne Hough Stolen Jewelry
    6. Judge Judy Sued
    7. Carnival Dream
    8. Nicole Scherzinger
Source: Bing

iTunes Top 10 Singles - 3/15/13
     1. When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars
     2. Stay (feat. Mikky Ekko) - Rihanna
     3. Suit & Tie (feat. Jay Z) - Justin Timberlake
     4. Thrift Shop (feat. Wanz) - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
     5. Just Give Me a Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) - Pink
     6. Harlem Shake - Baauer
     7. Feel This Moment (feat. Christina Aguilera) - Pitbull
     8. Started from the Bottom - Drake
     9. Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
    10. Heart Attack - Demi Lovato
Source: Apple iTunes

Top 10 TV Shows in Prime Time - Week Ending 3/10/13
     1. NCIS
     2. The Big Bang Theory
     3. NCIS: Los Angeles
     4. Person of Interest
     5. Two and a Half Men
     6. American Idol - Thurs.
     7. American Idol - Wed.
     8. American Idol - Tues. Spec.
     9. 60 Minutes
    10. Blue Bloods
 Source: Nielsen Co

Most Viewed YouTube Videos  - 3/8/13
(List for 3/15/13 was unavailable at time of today's publication.)
    1. "Homer Shake" / Simpsons
    2. Mila Kunis talks to Chris Stark
    3. HolaSoyGerman / Draw My Life
    4. Game of Thrones Season 3: Trailer
    5. Elevator Murder Experiment
Source: YouTube

Top 5 Movies - Week Ending 3/14/13
    1. Oz: The Great and Powerful
    2. Jack the Giant Slayer
    3. Identity Thief
    4. Dead Man Down
    5. Snitch (2013)
Source: Variety