October 1, 2012
News Clips
- Boys to Men
Program aimed at helping parents talk to their sons about growing up.
Boys, seeing chiseled models on the front of magazines like Men’s Health or Muscle and Fitness, practically any film starring Matthew McConaughey or commercials on TV for exercise machines, also are subject to forming negative views about their bodies that could affect them as they make the transition from adolescence to manhood.
thehawkeye.com
September 28, 2012 - Race and Beyond: Coming Together to Help Black Boys and Men
About two dozen academics, grassroots activists, community-based organizers, and policy experts gathered in the CLASP conference room to talk about their work, offering success strategies that are improving the lives of and outcomes for black boys and men.
Center for American Progress
September 25, 2012 - The Gender Inequality Of Suicide: Why Are Men At Such High Risk?
Forbes
September 24, 2012 - SAT® Report: Only 43 Percent of 2012 College-Bound Seniors Are College Ready
The College Board
September 24, 2012 - NY Graduation Rates for Black, Hispanic Boys Lowest in Nation
Study: Only 37% graduate high school in four years
NBC New York
September 24, 2012 - The US is still Executing Teens and Locking Kids Up for Life
This Can’t Be Happening
September 23, 2012 - Doping now a ‘public health issue’ says WHO doctor
“If we believe that around three percent of high school boys in the U.S. are taking a steroid or growth hormone, then that’s a public health issue,” said Dr. Timothy Armstrong of the World Health Organization.
fyibehealthy.com
September 23, 2012
Opinion
- Connie Schultz: Time for Boy Scouts to stop bullying
appealdemocrat.com
September 29, 2012 - Editorial: Scouts failed to protect boys
USA Today
September 23, 2012
STUDIES/REPORTS
- Changing the Trajectory of Impoverished Youth: Plugging Disconnected Youth Back into the Labor Market
Center for Law and Social Policy
September 25, 2012 - Part 6 Editorial: We can’t tolerate failing boys
6th in a 6-part Series
The Globe and Mail
August 23, 2012
International News
CHINA
- Boys in danger
The lack of protection for male rape victims in the Chinese Criminal Law is partly due to Chinese people’s partial understanding of the word “rape,” said Hong Daode, a criminal law professor at the China University of Political Science and Law. The majority of Chinese dictionaries define rapists as male and the victims of rape as female.
Global Times
September 27, 2012
MALAYSIA
- Vocational education mooted as girls leave behind ‘lost boys’
themalaysiainsider.com
September 24, 2012