Category: 2012 Newsletter

September 24, 2012 News Clips WHO: Doping a ‘public health issue’“If we believe that around three percent of high school boys in the U.S. are taking a steroid or growth hormone, then that’s a public health issue,” said Dr. Timothy Armstrong of the World Health Organisation (WHO).Chicago TribuneSeptember 22, 2012 CDC: US kids eat too READ MORE

October 1, 2012 News Clips Boys to MenProgram aimed at helping parents talk to their sons about growing up.Boys, seeing chiseled models on the front of magazines like Men’s Health or Muscle and Fitness, practically any film starring Matthew McConaughey or commercials on TV for exercise machines, also are subject to forming negative views about READ MORE

October 8, 2012 News Clips Gay Boy Scout, Bullied by Troop, Denied Eagle Rank Ryan Andresen has spent a decade completing the requirements for the coveted Eagle Scout award, and now that he is just about to turn 18 — the cut-off date for attaining the highest honor — his Boy Scout troop won’t approve it READ MORE

October 15, 2012 News Clips Male sex-abuse survivors learn it’s OK to talk about itOne in six boys have at least one unwanted or abusive sexual experience before age 16, according to MaleSurvivor, a nonprofit organization that aims to prevent and heal the sexual victimization of boys and men. Experts believe this estimate is low.Daily READ MORE

October 22, 2012 News Clips Boys Now Enter Puberty Younger, Study Suggests, but It’s Unclear WhyThe study, widely considered the most reliable attempt to measure puberty in American boys, estimates that boys are showing signs of puberty six months to two years earlier than was reported in previous research, which historically taught that 11 ½ READ MORE

October 29, 2012 News Clips Colleges With the Best Safe-Sex Programs, From U Conn to YaleDaily BeastOctiber 2012 Fathers play key role in teens’ sexual behavior, says studyFathers’ attitudes toward teen sex and the emotional closeness of their relationship with their teens have a sizable influence on their teens’ sexual behavior, separate from the influence READ MORE

November 5, 2012 News Clips Liberal or Conservative: Study Finds Childhood InfluenceA 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. READ MORE

November 12, 2012 News Clips UPS ends grants to Boy Scouts over discriminationThe philanthropic arm of shipping giant UPS said it will no longer give money to the Boy Scouts of America as long as the group discriminates against gays, the second major corporation to recently strip funding from the scouts.  The UPS Foundation made READ MORE

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, READ MORE

November 26, 2012 News Clips With Bullying, What’s a Parent to Do?When kids have academic problems, report cards make that clear to parents. And if a kid skins a knee or breaks a bone, parents know what to do. But detecting that a child is being bullied, and then knowing how to react, may not be READ MORE