By Jacob Geanous – Metro 02/13/2020 “… Roznowski is charged with three counts of sexual assault and two counts of exposing intimate parts to a child. The age of consent in Wisconsin is 17. …” Read the entire article: https://metro.co.uk/2020/02/13/teachers-aide-sex-boy-16-said-every-kids-dream-teacher-12236307/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Category: Advocacy for Boys
School league tables: Boys behind girls for three decades
By BBC News 02/06/2020 “… Girls are now 14% more likely to pass English and maths GCSE than boys, with 64% of girls doing so and 56% of boys. Yet there is little national focus on the difference in results or measures addressing why boys lag behind. And campaigners and academics accuse consecutive governments of READ MORE
Suicidal Thoughts Can Begin In Children As Young As 9 Years Old, Study Finds
By John Anderer – Study Finds 02/10/2020 “… Unbelievably, Barch also mentioned that she has even seen suicidal thoughts in preschoolers over the course of prior research. This study also noted some interesting discrepancies among boys and girls; young boys tend to have more suicidal thoughts than young girls. …” Read the entire article: https://www.studyfinds.org/suicidal-thoughts-can-begin-in-children-as-young-as-9-years-old-study-finds/ The READ MORE
Boys with an incarcerated family member more likely to have diabetes as adults
By Bradley A. White – Healio 02/08/2020 “… Odds of diabetes among those exposed to family member incarceration during childhood for men were 1.64 (95% CI, 1.27-2.11). There was no significant association observed for women. …” Read the entire article: https://www.healio.com/endocrinology/diabetes/news/online/%7Bd01bfc9e-c95f-4664-b5d3-1acb5f8784b2%7D/boys-with-an-incarcerated-family-member-more-likely-to-have-diabetes-as-adults The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
We need to talk about the boys
By Chris McGovern – The Conservative Woman 02/10/2020 “… These days, boys are rarely seen as being as deserving as girls when it comes to ‘care and attention’. We live in an age when victimhood status is conferred more readily on females than on males. …” Read the entire article: https://conservativewoman.co.uk/we-need-to-talk-about-the-boys/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
How Strengthening Relationships with Boys Can Help Them Learn
By Deborah Farmer Kris – KQED 01/29/2020 “… To support boys in our classrooms, Reichert points to one robust, consistent finding from his 30 years of research: boys are relational learners. They learn best in the context of strong, supportive relationships. …” Read the entire article: https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/54878/how-strengthening-relationships-with-boys-can-help-them-learn The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
When Boys and Men Are Raped: Clinical Insights
By Joan Cook – Psychiatric Times 01/20/2020 “… Society needs to dispel such myths for the healing of male victims to come forward to accurately label their experiences as abuse and assault and for them to be able to recognize the pernicious effects of those experiences on their mental and physical health. …” Read the READ MORE
1 in 4 Children With Autism Is Undiagnosed: Study
By Robert Preidt – U.S. News 01/14/2020 “… Of the nearly 4,500 children identified as having autism, 25% had not yet been diagnosed. Most of the undiagnosed children were black or Hispanic boys who had difficulties in mental abilities, social skills and activities of daily living, but were not considered disabled, the researchers said. …” READ MORE
Why Teenage Boys Should Continue to Play Sports
By Sumeet Manhas – The Good Men Project 01/03/2020 “… However, with the epidemic of childhood obesity continuing to rise, along with health concerns such as anxiety and depression in teens, plus the fact that children spend so much time on tech devices each week, it’s more important than ever for kids to be active. READ MORE
Healthy Men: Why do girls live longer than boys?
By Armin Brott – Medical Xpress 12/31/2019 “… The disparity between male and female death rates exists in every age group, from infants through age 19—and beyond. …” Read the entire article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-12-healthy-men-girls-longer-boys.html The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org