November 19, 2012
News Clips
- Muscular Body Image Lures Boys Into Gym, and Obsession
In a study to be published on Monday in the journal Pediatrics, more than 40 percent of boys in middle school and high school said they regularly exercised with the goal of increasing muscle mass. Thirty-eight percent said they used protein supplements, and nearly 6 percent said they had experimented with steroids.
New York Times
November 19, 2012 - Too tough to get sick: Why men won’t go to the doctor
“If you look deeper into this – it’s fascinating. If you look at the data by gender, before the age of 18, the utilization of health care is equal by gender. After age 18, there is a dramatic reduction in health-service utilization by males,” Shabsigh said. “Now, why is there no gender discrepancy before age 18? Mom. Mom takes both boys and girls equally to the doctor. After age 18, boys disappear.
MSNBC
November 14, 2012 - Teens born with HIV not telling partners
A significant number of sexually active U.S. teens who were born with HIV either didn’t know their own status when they started having sex, or they knew it but didn’t disclose it to their first sex partners, a new study says.
Washington Times
November 11, 2012
International News
CANADA
- Celebrate boys’ boyness — and work with it
Everyone knows the girls are clobbering the boys in school. They get higher marks and graduate at higher rates. Women have stormed the gates of medicine and law. They’ve all but taken over pharmacy and veterinary work. They are focused, purposeful and diligent. Their brothers, meanwhile, are in the basement playing video games.
The Globe and Mail
November 18, 2012
JAMAICA
- Time To Give Men Attention!
As a society, we have not paid sufficient attention to those issues affecting our males. It is not enough for men only to have a male desk within the Bureau of Women’s Affairs to deal with male issues. The time has come for the Jamaican male to have his own ‘bureau’. The time has also come for the necessary funding and staff to be put in place to ensure that boys and men live longer, happier and healthier lives.
The Gleaner
November 17, 2012
NEW ZEALAND
- Young girls binge-drinking more than boys
A survey by Massey University’s Social and Health Outcomes Research and Evaluation (Shore) public health unit has found that among 16-17-year-old drinkers, 28 per cent of girls against 25 per cent of boys drank at least eight standard drinks in a typical drinking session last year.
Otago Daily Times
November 14, 2012
PAKISTAN
- Al-Qaeda releases shocking images of little boys being trained as ‘Jihadis’ in Pakistan
Shocking images have emerged from inside a terror camp in Pakistan’s North Waziristan where boys as young as five are being brainwashed into waging Jihad and becoming suicide bombers. Many of the children are orphans of Al-Qaeda “martyrs” being put on the same path to terror as their fathers, reports the Mirror.
News Track India
November 18, 2012
TURKEY
- Sex Is Not a Secular State: Love and Politics in Turkey
On Istanbul’s streets, many of the young men and women with whom we speak have boy and girlfriends. They hold hands, but they don’t kiss in public. “Kurdish people don’t kiss each other, there’s no such thing,” declares a head-scarfed girl from one of Turkey’s minority communities, arm in arm with a boy. It would mark them and likely offend the sensibilities of passersby. The young people don’t tell their parents about their relationships, and certainly not the kinds of things they do together when nobody can see. The girls don’t tell their friends either. It is too dangerous: The honor that inheres in virginity still weighs heavily on their personal lives.
Huffington Post
November 13, 2012
UK
- 1 in 5 boys at primaries have no male teachers while some could go through their entire education without one
Nearly one in five boys is being taught in a primary school without a single male teacher on the staff. Official statistics compiled for the first time reveal how 360,485 boys aged four to 11 are attending schools which have only women teachers. Of these, 61,060 are eligible for free school meals because of low household income.
Daily Mail
November 18, 2012