Because you have nothing else to worry about, here's a fun study for ya. A new study out of UT Dallas has found that teens are more likely to have successful marriages if they grew up in a happy home. Now, before you're all duhhhhhh, here's why the study's interesting.

Usually researchers spend time learning about the effects negative households have on teens when they're older, but this one actually looks at the flip side. If there are long-term negative effects of divorce on adolescents, are there long-term positive effects of happy homes?

Since it's been, oh what, four days now, since the last Facebook study has been published, a new one has been unleashed unto the hungry-for-knowledge social media masses: Research has found, just in time for Valentine's Day, that oversharing about your personal life online can actually damage your real-life relationships. AKA, you might want to think twice about posting a photo of your awesome flowers from your awesome boyfriend tomorrow.

This study is different from its predecessors. It isn't your run of the mill, state the obvious (social media makes us sad/depressed/jealous/weird/annoying) pointless survey. It brings a really interesting point up about Facebook -- one I've never thought of; and one you probably haven't either.

A little over a month ago, I quit Facebook and I haven't looked back since. The reason for my departure after four long years on the site was, to put it bluntly, because I was over it. Sure, I miss seeing photos of my friends' children, and there is a select group of people I don't correspond with otherwise and miss, but when it came down to it -- I was just bored with it. I saw the same status updates from the same people over and over, and rarely did I log on and see something, and think: "Wow! That's awesome!"

I've been told by some of my friends that I'm a party-pooper and I should just come back because it's fun, but no. For now I'm sticking to my guns and laying off Facebook. And it turns out I'm not the only one. A new study found that lots of people are quitting Facebook, or, at the very least, have taken a break at some point. Their reason being the same as mine: Facebook is one, big yawn-fest.

A new study has found that an estimated 22 veterans commit suicide every day, representing a 20 percent jump since 2007. More than two-thirds of the vets who commit suicide are 50 or older, debunking any assumption that the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are solely responsible for the increase.

While the number is in and of itself depressing -- 22 a day -- it does, in fact, have a silver lining.

Once you survive the newborn months of baby not sleeping through the night because of the reality that they are babies who need to eat every two to three hours, you see this beacon of sleep light in the toddler years. But sometimes that doesn't happen either. There are the wake-ups and the crawling into bed with you or even you ending up squished into the princess-themed twin sheets along with your child and 47 favorite stuffed animals, feet cold from dangling off the end, arm asleep from lying on it, and not wanting to move for fear of waking your child who finally snoozed. Why is this happening, you wonder? This no sleep business. Why can't my child sleep through the night?

The answer has everything to do with technology.

I've reproduced just twice. I'm ok with that.Is limiting the number of children one has a symptom of “cultural decadence”? This week in The New York Times, Ross Douthat argues that it is the niceties of modern life that are contributing significantly to the declining birthrate in America.

Fertility plunged after the recession hit in 2008, and it has yet to recover. The Pew Research Center found that U.S. birthrates hit their lowest number ever in 2011, with 63 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age. In 1990, it was 71 per 1,000.

It makes sense. A lot of people (myself included) worry that they won’t have the means to provide for another child. Kids are expensive, yo, what with their lessons and activities, clothes, health upkeep, and the endless supply of GoGurt they seem to consume -- and that’s before we even get into the emotional toll they take on our lives.

It might not be as easy as a finger prick and a DIY blood test, but scientists have just discovered a gene mutation that could predict whether or not your teenager will have a tendency to binge drink. Teens with a variation of this gene might derive more pleasure from drinking than the average person, and will therefore seek out alcohol and imbibe more frequently.

Pretending that you could do a take-home test to determine if your teen carried the genetic variation that made them more inclined to booze it up, would you?

It's shocking to know that for every 1,000 babies born in Mississippi, 9.4 died before their first birthday in 2011. As a whole, the United States has 6 infant deaths per 1,000 births. Missisippi's high rates of infant mortality puts them with Costa Rica (9.2), Sri Lanka (9.5), and Botswana (10.5). Which is why it's even more troubling. What is going on in Mississippi to make it the most risky place to have a baby? It makes me want to scoop up all the pregnant women and move them elsewhere.

Experts say it's not the state, it's the women who live there. But I'm still suspect. Is there something in the water or the soil down there? Louisiana and Alabama -- the two states on either side of Mississippi -- also have high rates of children dying within the first 12 months. Researchers have their suspicions of reasons why this is happening, but there are women who don't fit their description who have lost children and they don't know why.