Parents don’t agree on when kids should swear. A new poll explores how families balance language, age, and social influence.

What's in a swear? The world's filthiest words typically refer to something vulgar or taboo, for one. But there's something else swears across the world's languages have in common. They're all missing ...

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How do young children learn to swear — and why do they seem to do it at the most inappropriate moments? Recently, a group of parents have become convinced that the Minion toys in McDonald’s Happy ...

The report found that parents who do object to their kids using curse words do so based on a variety of reasons—that it goes against their religion, that it indicates bad manners, or that it can be ...

Dancing around risky language is common for many forms of on-air media. Sitcoms and family shows have been making substitutions like "sugar" and "fudge" for expletives and curse words for quite some ...

I swear like a trooper, but I truly thought I had managed to not do it within earshot of her. Obviously not. The trouble is, ...