Author: The Boys Initiative

April 22, 2013 News Clips Sons of Absent or Abusive Fathers May Pick More Bar Fights: SurveyMen whose fathers were abusive or absent are more likely to get into bar fights, a new study reveals.These findings about alcohol-related aggression are from a survey of 137 men, aged 18 to 25, in Australia, and appear online READ MORE

April 29, 2013 News Clips Survey Finds Rate For Young Adult Coverage Improves While Others DeclineWhile the number of medically uninsured young adults dropped over the past two years, coverage of the overall working age population failed to improve, according to the findings of the Commonwealth Fund’s 2012 biennial health insurance survey released Friday.Kaiser Health NewsApril 26, READ MORE

May 6, 2013 News Clips Is your child a budding psychopath? Now there’s a way to find outBRAIN scans can be used to identify children who may grow up to be psychopaths, scientists have discovered.A study compared 37 boys with serious conduct problems, including causing harm to others, dishonesty, general aggression and other antisocial traits, READ MORE

May 13, 2013 News Clips Op-Ed: What’s Your HIV Risk? If You’re Under 24, Probably Higher Than You ThinkThe numbers of young people being infected is staggering, but there’s a lot we can do about it, says the director of the government’s Office of Adolescent Health.Take Part.comMay 3, 2013 Same-Sex Relationships Pose Abuse Risks, TooThough many READ MORE

May 20, 2013 News Clips The Unsafe Sex: Should The World Invest More In Men’s Health?On average, men aren’t as healthy as women.  Men don’t live as long, and they’re more likely to engage in risky behaviors, like smoking and drinking.  But in the past decade, global health funding has focused heavily on women.  “Programs READ MORE

June 3, 2013 News Clips Michael Douglas: HPV caused my throat cancerIn an interview with the Guardian published on Sunday, Michael Douglas said that his throat cancer was apparently caused by a strain of human papillomavirus (HPV) he contracted through oral sex. The actor was diagnosed with stage four cancer throat cancer in 2010 and subsequently underwent an READ MORE

June 10, 2013 News Clips The death of gender-neutral clothing: New book details the history of when blue and pink became gender synonymousIt was only in the 1940s when children’s clothing began to change, and become specific to gender. Gender-neutral clothing had always been the norm with boys wearing the same crisp white dresses as READ MORE

June 17, 2013 News Clips Do the Health Benefits of Neonatal Circumcision Outweigh the Risks?These days, approximately 57% of boys are circumcised in U.S. hospitals, with the procedure generally being more common among whites and less common among black and Hispanic populations, according to estimates. Other boys are circumcised in religious ceremonies shortly after birth.Wall READ MORE

June 24, 2013 News Clips Boy-On-Boy Sexual Hazing on the Rise (audio)Ten percent of high school boys report being victims of rape, forced oral sex and other sexual assault, according to a study by the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. Experts say sexual hazing has been increasing in the past decade, and high school hazing fuels college hazing.NPRJune 21, READ MORE

July 8, 2013 News Clips Sleepy Teens Reach for Fast Foods First“Not only do sleepy teens, on average, eat more food that’s bad for them, they also eat less food that is good for them,” study leader Lauren Hale, an associate professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, said in a READ MORE