January 14, 2013
News Clips
- The End of Courtship?
Instead of dinner-and-a-movie, which seems as obsolete as a rotary phone, they rendezvous over phone texts, Facebook posts, instant messages and other “non-dates” that are leaving a generation confused about how to land a boyfriend or girlfriend.
New York Times
January 11, 2013 - Screen time not linked to kids’ physical activity
Cutting back kids’ time watching TV and playing video games may not encourage them to spend more of the day running around outside, a new study suggests.
Medline Plus
January 10, 2013 - For Americans Under 50, Stark Findings on Health
Younger Americans die earlier and live in poorer health than their counterparts in other developed countries, with far higher rates of death from guns, car accidents and drug addiction, according to a new analysis of health and longevity in the United States.
New York Times
January 9, 2013 - Feeling Bullied by Parents About Weight
Parents and other adults who are “only trying to help” may do harm rather than good, as a recent study from the journal Pediatrics makes clear.
New York Times
January 9, 2013 - Study Questions Effectiveness of Therapy for Suicidal Teenagers
Most adolescents who plan or attempt suicide have already received at least some mental health treatment, raising questions about the effectiveness of current approaches to helping troubled youths, according to the largest in-depth analysis to date of suicidal behaviors in American teenagers.
New York Times
January 8, 2013 - New AAP statement calls recess ‘crucial’ to child’s development
Children have long regarded recess as a highlight of the school day. Last week, unstructured play breaks got an endorsement from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Washington Post
January 7, 2013 - U.S. launches study into youth sports concussions
The U.S. government launched on Monday a sweeping study of rising sports-related concussions among the youth, amid concerns that the injuries may have contributed to the suicides of professional football players.
Medline Plus
January 7, 2013 - Needed: More Attention to Boys’ Development
Recent research suggests that we should be paying closer attention to male development, not just to help boys understand and care for a particularly sensitive and vulnerable part of their anatomy — but also to help answer larger questions about what is happening to boys and their growth.
New York Times
January 7, 2013 - Drug Treatment Courts Offer Hope for Youth
After receiving a three-year Juvenile Treatment Drug Court grant from SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) in 2010, the county has been trying to achieve better outcomes for these youth by getting young offenders involved in a juvenile treatment drug court as an alternative to incarceration. Designed to break the cycle of alcohol and drug use, criminal behavior, and incarceration, the project includes alcohol and drug treatment, regular meetings with the judge, and drug testing.
SAMHSA News
Winter 2013
Opinion
- Darwin Was Wrong About Dating
Lately, however, a new cohort of scientists have been challenging the very existence of the gender differences in sexual behavior that Darwinians have spent the past 40 years trying to explain and justify on evolutionary grounds.
New York Times
January 12, 2013 - Beauty and the Boy: The Impact of Negative Body Image on Our Boys
But while girls are still three times more likely than boys to have a negative body image, according to the National Mental Health Information Center, those numbers are changing. More and more boys report being concerned with — at times consumed with — how they look.
Huffington Post
January 12, 2013 - Violence plays role in shorter US life expectancy
For many years, Americans have been dying at younger ages that people in almost all other wealthy countries. In addition to the impact of gun violence, Americans consume the most calories among peer countries and get involved in more accidents that involve alcohol. The U.S. also suffers higher rates of drug-related deaths, infant mortality and AIDS.
Associated Press
January 9, 2013 - Ending Violence in Children’s Lives: A Resolution We Cannot Afford to Break
We heard the message. It was communicated by the most credible voices I can imagine: those of 20 first graders, seven women and their families and friends. It was loud. It is compelling. Now we need to transform the outrage and sadness into hope. Too many of us share a core belief that violence is outside our control. We need to get past that.
Huffington Post
January 8, 2013 - Column: Guns don’t kill people — our sons do
But it is not our children who are killing. It is our sons. All but one of the 62 mass killings in the past 30 years was committed by boys or men.
USA Today
January 6, 2013
The author, Warren Farrell, is a member of The Boys Initiative Board of Advisors - Masculinity, mental illness and guns: A lethal equation?
How does masculinity figure into this? From an early age, boys learn that violence is not only an acceptable form of conflict resolution, but one that is admired. However the belief that violence is an inherently male characteristic is a fallacy. Most boys don’t carry weapons, and almost all don’t kill: are they not boys? Boys learn it.
CNN, December 11, 2012
The author, Michael Kimmel, is a member of The Boys Initiative Board of Advisors
International News
FRANCE
- France’s ‘boys will be boys’ mentality challenges gender equality
The French may duly proclaim and agree with gender equality and modern feminist notions. But in practice, those ideas run up against a powerful, culturally sanctioned ‘old-boy mentality.’
Christian Science Monitor
January 8, 2103
UK
- Could the choirboy disappear? Scientists find boys voices are breaking earlier than ever due to ‘rich diet’
A study of 1,000 boys over two years found that where male voices were breaking around age 13 or 14 in the 1960s, they can now expect to deepen aged 11 or 12.
Mail Online
January 11, 2013 - The UK’s lost boys need better careers advice
..more than a decade ago Ofsted warned that the under-performance of white working-class boys was a matter for great concern, that many were more interested in the three Fs – fighting, football and f…ing – than the three Rs.
The Independent
January 6, 2013