November 5, 2012
News Clips
- Liberal or Conservative: Study Finds Childhood Influence
A person’s temperament in childhood and the type of parenting they received have a major effect on their political beliefs, according to a new study. Researchers looked at data from more than 700 children who took part in an earlier study from the U.S. National Institute on Child Health and Human Development. The researchers found that children with authoritarian parents were more likely to have conservative political beliefs when they were 18, while those with egalitarian parents were more likely to have liberal beliefs.
MedLine Plus
November 1, 2012 - Obese Children Struggle With Joint Pain: Study
As if obese children did not struggle enough, new research shows that heavier kids suffer pain in their lower joints, report poorer physical function and have worse mental health.
Medline Plus
November 1, 2012 - Stem cell op may ‘restore sperm’
Boys left infertile by childhood cancer treatment may one day be able to produce healthy sperm by using stored stem cells, monkey research suggests.
BBC News
November 1, 2012 - Hitting the target: suicide prevention for at-risk youths
On both sides of the Atlantic, suicide is one of the largest causes of death among teenagers. Two short programs that focus on at-risk students can offer some protection, according to a study from America’s west coast.
Prevention Action
October 31, 2012 - APNewsBreak: Boy Scouts host anti-abuse forum
Even as its past policies on sex-abuse prevention fuel controversy, the Boy Scouts of America is hosting an unprecedented closed-door symposium Thursday with other national youth organizations, hoping to share strategies to combat future abuse. The 10 participating groups, including the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the YMCA and Big Brothers Big Sisters, will hear presentations from some of the nation’s top experts on child sex-abuse prevention.
AP
October 31, 2012 - Research suggests boys are more likely than girls to abuse over-the-counter drugs
As crackdowns get tougher on alcohol, tobacco sales, and illicit drugs, there’s a growing trend among youth to turn to another source to get high: their parent’s medicine cabinet. A new University of Cincinnati study suggests adolescent males are at a higher risk of reporting longtime use of over-the-counter drugs, compared with their female peers.
Medical Xpress
October 30, 2102 - Eating More Meals Linked to Less Student Overweight
Drinking soda, watching TV and playing video/computer games increased the risk that students would gain weight or remain overweight, while eating more meals each day and playing school sports reduced the risk, according to new research.
Health Day
October 30, 2012 - Flu can be deadly, even in healthy kids
While Martin’s complication was uncommon, influenza can produce complications that result in death, including pneumonia, bacterial infection, acute respiratory failure, and encephalitis, even in otherwise healthy children.
CNN
October 24, 2012
Opinion
- Anti-Gay Marriage Ad In Washington Concerning Schools Teaching ‘Boys Can Marry Boys’ Only Half True
The Claim: A television ad by opponents of same-sex marriage claims that if Referendum 74 is approved, “same-sex marriage could be taught” in Washington schools.The spot features parents in Massachusetts who say their son’s school taught that boys could marry boys, in contradiction to the family’s religious beliefs. After they and another family sued, they say, the courts ruled the parents had no right to take children out of their classes or be informed when such lessons were going to take place.
Huffington Post
November 1, 2012 - Are Boys Ready for College?
In the past three weeks, three friends of mine who are parents of teenage sons, high school seniors and juniors, have expressed emotions ranging from outright panic to rage, befuddlement, frustration and resignation. In each case there was a young man who was resisting — sometimes passively and sometimes overtly — the idea of college.
Huffington Post
October 30, 2012 - Can’t Guys Just Learn to Fight for a Friendship?
Men no longer know how to fight. Don’t get me wrong — we know how to confront strangers when they cut in line at the butcher’s or block the door on the subway. What we don’t know how to do is have the kind of unpleasant talks that articulate feelings to real friends when those friends ignore our wives at a dinner, or don’t think to call us when we are fired. Instead, we either shrug off the slight or end the friendship.
New York Times
October 26, 2012
International News
INDIA
- Suicide- Youngster’s Permanent Solution to a Temporary Problem
Suicide affects all youth, but some groups are at higher risk than others. Boys are more likely than girls to die from suicide. Of the reported suicides in the 10 to 24 age group, 81% of the deaths were males and 19% were females. Girls, however, are more likely to report attempting suicide than boys. Several factors can put a young person at risk for suicide. However, having these risk factors does not always mean that suicide will occur.
Mutiny.in
October 29, 2012
NEW ZEALAND
- Poverty not only reason for suicide spike, says Key
But what was known was that a disproportionate number of Maori boys took their lives and that boys were more likely to succeed at their attempts than girls.
New Zealand Herald
October 30, 2012
PAKISTAN
- Education sole key to development
Vice Chancellor University of Peshawar Prof. Dr. Qibla Ayaz has said education has been the sole key towards development of nations while lack of the same has led to their downfall. University of Peshawar has the proud privilege of providing nursery to PhD education to its male and femalestudents from within, but due to upgrading of Islamia College as a chartered University, we were lacking a boy’s college. That is why the idea of, establishing our own boy’s college emerged and materialized later in the form of Hakim Abdul Jalil, University College for Boys.
Pakistan Observer
November 4, 2012
UK
- Blog: Did you know that suicide is the 2nd biggest killer of young men?
Male suicide is the second biggest killer of young men in this country, yet the problem remains largely ignored.
HR Zone
October 31, 2012