By EurekAlert 01/26/2021 “… Exposure to antibiotics in the first days of life is thought to affect various physiological aspects of neonatal development. A new study, led by Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, reveals that antibiotic treatment within 14 days of birth is associated with reduced weight and height in boys – but not READ MORE
Author: The Boys Initiative
Teenage boys more likely to struggle with remote learning than girls, MPs told
By Evening Express 01/26/2021 “… Remote learning is a “real concern” as boys are likely to be at a greater disadvantage as they are not used to sitting in front of a computer to study, the founder of a male mentoring service for boys has said. …” Read the entire article: https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/uk/teenage-boys-more-likely-to-struggle-with-remote-learning-than-girls-mps-told/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
The COVID Slide: Inequality And Pandemic Learning Loss
By GHB 01/21/2021 “… But as many students enter the one-year mark of learning remotely, it’s slow progress, Rodrigues said. For Latino boys, like her son, she says data show the side-effects of a lost education can mean poverty or jail time. …” Read the entire article: https://www.wgbh.org/news/education/2021/01/21/the-covid-slide-inequality-and-pandemic-learning-loss The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Single-sex male charter school moves forward on unanimous Charter School Advisory Board vote
By The Progressive Pulse 01/21/2021 “… The state board asked the school to explain how it will meet the standards to operate as a single-sex school to establish a record to show that the school had a justifiable reason for limiting student enrollment to a single sex. …” Read the entire article: https://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2021/01/21/single-sex-male-charter-school-moves-forward-on-unanimous-charter-school-advisory-board-vote/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
The pandemic is speeding up the mass disappearance of men from college
By Jon Marcus – The Hechinger Report 01/19/2020 “… While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than seven times as steep as the decline among women, according to an analysis of figures READ MORE
Coronavirus: Experts ‘deeply concerned’ about the impact of Covid-19 on children’s physical activity levels
By BBC 01/14/2021 “… In terms of gender disparities, there was a notable fall in activity among boys, who suffered from the stopping of team sport, while girls retained roughly their same activity levels, adapting well to alternative activities such as fitness and walking. …” Read the entire article: https://www.bbc.com/sport/55664539 The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Why we need to educate teenagers about HPV and vaccines
By RTE 01/07/2021 “… Despite the majority listing the ‘news’ as their primary source of information, the survey found only 40% of participants believed boys should receive the HPV vaccine, with the majority (50%), indicating that they didn’t know…” Read the entire article: https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0107/1188195-teenagers-hpv-vaccinations-sexual-health-cancer-education/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Struggling families say a lack of food makes home-learning difficult
By Phys.org 01/12/2021 “… Girls of all ages were more engaged and motivated than boys. This was most apparent in secondary schools where girls were more than twice as likely to be very engaged and very motivated in their home learning than boys…” Read the entire article: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-struggling-families-lack-food-home-learning.html The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Boys born to overweight women are 40 percent more likely to grow up infertile, study finds
By Ian Randall – Daily Mail 01/06/2020 “… The sons of women who were overweight prior to giving birth are around 40 per cent more likely to grow up to be infertile, a study has warned. Researchers from Denmark studied 9,232 adults — of whom around nine per cent were found to suffer from infertility…” READ MORE
The Brutality of Boyhood
By Washington Monthly 01/11/2021 “… For starters, we generally don’t hold boys’ bodies sacred in the same manner we do girls’; boys are apparently too tough to experience physical pain. We deny them access to the full range of human emotions, labeling certain feelings like sadness and fear as exclusively feminine. We don’t give boys READ MORE