By Yahoo on 03/06/2018 “… Fox News host Tucker Carlson has announced a special series that will air on his show every Wednesday through the month of March. The “Men in America” series will focus on what Carlson described as a “crisis” facing American men. …” Read the entire article: https://www.yahoo.com/news/women-history-month-tucker-carlson-043240200.html The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Category: Advocacy for Boys
Poll Shows Most Parents Of School Children Support Arming Teachers
By MRC TV on 02/28/2018 “… While Americans in general may be divided on the prospect of allowing teachers to carry guns in schools, it looks like the majority of parents agree: more guns are a good thing. …” Read the entire article: https://www.mrctv.org/blog/poll-shows-most-parents-school-children-support-arming-teachers The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Exclusive: Craig Morgan Admits Son Jerry’s Death is the ‘First Thing I Think About When I Wake Up’
By Pop Culture on 02/28/2018 “… Craig Morgan and his wife, Karen, experienced every parent’s worst nightmare in 2016, when their 19-year-old son, Jerry, drowned while tubing on a lake with his friends. …” Read the entire article: http://popculture.com/country-music/2018/02/28/craig-morgan-jerry-greer-son-died-exclusive/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Stanford protects inclusivity by banning men from the gym twice a week
By The College Fix on 02/22/2018 “… Michigan State University operated a women-only lounge going back to the Great Depression. The University of Michigan-Flint has excluded whites and males from consideration for certain faculty awards. …” Read the entire article: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/42255/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
We’re Getting ADHD Wrong (Especially in Boys)
By ED Week 02/13/2018 “… My 15-year-old son has been dubbed a “slow processer”—the kind of kid who tends to stare out the window during class as he gathers his thoughts or daydreams. His reading has hovered slightly below grade level since teachers began assessing it. His organizational habits are less than stellar: Homework assignments, school READ MORE
Concern over teen boys increasing use of unregulated protein supplements
By 3 AW on 01/31/2017 “… An estimated 60 per cent of adolescent boys are dissatisfied with their bodies, and they are increasingly turning to the use of unregulated supplements and steroids. A new high school education program, Three Dimensions Project, is targeting adolescent boys in a bid to decrease supplement use. …” Read the entire article: https://www.3aw.com.au/concern-over-teen-boys-increasing-use-of-unregulated-protein-supplements/ READ MORE
Plastic chemical linked to male infertility in majority of teenagers, study suggests
By Telegraph on 02/04/2018 “… The chemical known as Bisphenol A can be found in in plastic containers and water bottles, till receipts, on the inside of cans and bottle tops and in plastic packaging and tubing, and has similarities to female sex hormone oestrogen. …” Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/04/plastic-chemical-linked-male-infertility-majority-teenagers/ The Boys Initiativeboysinitiative.org
Is your child at risk of brain injury from playing football or rugby?
By The Guardian on 02/05/2018 “… Since the case of Jeff Astle, the former West Bromwich Albion footballer who died of a degenerative brain disease in 2002, the potential risks of heading have come under intensive scrutiny. The coroner cited “industrial disease” as the cause of Astle’s death. At about the same time, Bennet Omalu, the forensic READ MORE
Doctoral students start book club to inspire boys of color to love reading
By The GW Hatchet on 01/29/2018 “… Principal Mary Ann Stinson and Assistant Principal Michael Redmond started a book club for minority boys that initiated a wave of book clubs to start across the Truesdell Education Campus earlier this year. The clubs have flooded the public school in Petworth with a renewed love of reading. The school READ MORE
Teen pregnancies decline
By News Press Now on 01/29/2018 “… The YWCA also offers a program for teen parents called Healthy Teen Parents/Health Babies. McChristy thinks sex education is a big part of the declining rate of teen pregnancies. “I have not seen anyone who has gone through those programs (Choices and Decisions) in my program, the Healthy Teen/Healthy READ MORE