By NPR, 05/23/2024 “…About 1 in 9 children in the U.S., between the ages of 3 and 17, have been diagnosed with ADHD. That’s according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that calls attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder an “expanding public health concern.”…” Read the entire article: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/05/23/1252941968/adhd-diagnoses-are-rising-1-in-9-u-s-kids-have-gotten-one-new-study-finds
Category: Mental Health of Boys
Nick Fletcher: ‘Boys are underperforming at school — silence on this grave inequality must end’
By Politics, 03/05/2024 “…Our boys are still not doing as well at school as they should be. They are underperforming. As well as with their own results, they are also behind girls at every single stage of education. The gender attainment gap is an expression of their underperformance because there is no biological or other READ MORE
Boys Aren’t Excelling in Schools. Would More Male Role Models in Early Learning Help?
By EdSurge, 02/14/2024 “…Zachary Jackson thinks a lot about what his students may be learning from him in class. For some of his first graders in Atlanta, that goes beyond the actual academic lessons. They are also practicing how to be a man. For Jackson, the question of how to model manhood is an obsession, READ MORE
Study finds boys’ mental health more impacted by COVID-19 pandemic than girls’
By Medical Xpress, 03/25/2024 “…The COVID-19 pandemic had a greater impact on boys’ mental health than girls, contrary to the findings of other studies, according to new research led by scientists at University of Liverpool, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Reading, and King’s College London…” Read the entire article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-boys-mental-health-impacted-covid.html#google_vignette
Study finds boys’ mental health more impacted by COVID-19 pandemic than girls’
By Medical Xpress, 03/25/2024 “…The COVID-19 pandemic had a greater impact on boys’ mental health than girls, contrary to the findings of other studies, according to new research led by scientists at University of Liverpool, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Reading, and King’s College London…” Read the entire article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-boys-mental-health-impacted-covid.html#google_vignette
Young Black Men Are Dying By Suicide At Alarming Rates
By University of Georgia News, 03/27/2024 “…One in three rural Black men reported they experienced suicidal ideation or thoughts of death in the past two weeks, reports a new study from the University of Georgia. Childhood adversity and racism may hold much of the blame…” Read the entire article: https://news.uga.edu/young-black-men-dying-by-suicide-at-alarming-rates/
Teens’ Latest Social Media Trend? Self-Diagnosing Their Mental Health Issues
By The Hill, 03/30/24 “…Teenagers are increasingly using social media to self-diagnose their mental health issues, alarming parents and advocates who say actual care should be easier to access. …” Read the entire article: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/teens-latest-social-media-trend-100000141.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr
Sex Differences in the Brain and the Mind
By David C. Geary – Quillette, 01/18/2024 “…Sex differences in many aspects of behavior and cognition are now well-established. These include women’s more communal (formation of intimate relationships) and men’s more agentic (goal achievement) approach to life, as well as men’s advantage in spatial abilities and women’s advantage in memory for personal experiences (episodic memory)…” READ MORE
Suicide deaths reached a record high in the US in 2022, despite hopeful decreases among children and young adults
By CNN, 11/29/2023 “…Teen boys and young men had more significant improvement in suicide rates than young females did. But the vast majority of suicide deaths among teens and young adults ages 15 to 24 were still among males, the provisional data shows…” Read the entire article: https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/health/suicide-record-high-2022-cdc/index.html
Boys and Men in the United States Are Struggling. The Left Should Talk About It.
By Richard Reeves, 09/13/2023 “…From being less likely to graduate from college to experiencing much higher rates of “deaths of despair,” men and boys in the US — especially working-class men and boys — are suffering….” Read the entire article: https://jacobin.com/2023/09/boys-men-work-despair-struggling-wages-education