A Pew Research Center survey found that adults ages 18 to 24 also say they feel too young and are not yet ready to settle into marriage. Some still haven’t yet found what they’re looking for in a partner. Sometimes, the walk down the aisle doesn’t happen at all.

"Suicide has been this stigmatized thing. We don’t want people to kill themselves in the general sense. We have this whole negative association with the idea of killing [yourself.] It’s really asking us to flip this issue upside down — that it’s actually positive that I can take charge of my life and make that decision under certain circumstances, and it’s a good idea for that to happen. And that’s asking us to change the whole way we view this process."

Today, “mindfulness” is everywhere. It’s on the New York Times’ Best Sellers list in the form of Dan Harris’ 10% Happier, a story of the Nightline co-anchor’s experiences with meditation. It’s practiced and praised by everyone from Anderson Cooper, to Katy Perry, to Derek Jeter. It’s even being implemented across Silicon Valley at tech giants such as Apple and Google. But what, exactly, is mindfulness? And why do people care?

For some expectant mothers, like Janina Beard, a water birth at home is fitting. “I think that I would like to see more people normalize a home birth, instead of treating it as something foreign,” she said. Others feel more comfortable in a hospital setting. “I am so thankful to have been in a hospital where [my son] got the care he needed directly after birth,” Staci Obasi said.

Every person in my immediate family has tattoos.  My dad has two large pieces dedicated to his service in the military.  Both are big enough to cover the biceps on his arms.  My mom has two, as well, one of which she randomly chose from the wall of predetermined designs at whatever tattoo parlor was allowing high schoolers to get inked at the time.  My sister takes the cake, though; she has seven pieces of art scattered across the upper half of her body.  The largest of the seven, an orange octo

While a 2003 study sponsored by Advocates for Youth and The Parisky Group of Hartford showed 91 percent of all adults support sexual education in high school, some of the people most affected — students and their primary care providers — say not enough is being done to create an integrated approach to sexual education in the classroom.

Perhaps it wasn’t being practiced or talked about in decades’ past, or perhaps it was still in the process of being socially constructed, and we hadn’t come up with a name for it yet. Either way, it didn’t appear as prominently in the public sphere. Today, though, “mindfulness” is everywhere. It’s on the New York Times’ Best Sellers list in the form of Dan Harris’ 10% Happier, a story of the Nightline co-anchor’s experiences with meditation. It’s practiced and praised by everyone from Anderson

Up until this academic year, student veterans at Quinnipiac were expected to bounce around from the Bursar’s Office to the Office of Financial Aid to the Office of Admissions while they tried to sort out their financial benefits, class registration and housing situations. “I am fortunate to be an advocate for our student veterans and hopefully reduce their strain of ping-ponging between campus offices,” said Jason Burke, director of veteran and military affairs.

Volunteers aim to help Holy Land U.S.A. rise again