Category: Parenting Boys

Boys Less Likely to Die in Infancy Than Girls If Born Third, Says Study

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By News 18 09/11/2019 “… A new study which focuses on the third child shows that boys were less likely than girls to die in infancy if born subsequent to two older sisters. The study shows a 64 percent greater risk for infant mortality for girls relative to boys in children born third. …” Read READ MORE

‘Boys Get Sad Too’ founder on his struggle with depression: ‘I want to be the person that I needed in that situation’

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By Ellie McKinnell – MyLondon 09/10/2019 “… One of the key issues for men experiencing depression and anxiety is that they don’t feel they can open up about it, worrying that it makes them less of a man. …” Read the entire article: https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/boys-sad-too-founder-struggle-16852054

A Teenage Boy Went Blind After Eating French Fries Everyday. How Does That Happen?

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By Maggie O’Neill – Health 09/04/2019 “… A teenage boy’s diet reportedly caused him to go blind, and his story is bringing light to an uncommon and potentially-dangerous eating disorder. …” Read the entire article: https://www.health.com/nutrition/boy-goes-blind-after-eating-french-fries-everyday

How to Make Your Child’s Brain Grow: A New Study Shows How Powerful Your Parenting Is

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By John Rich – The Good Men Project 07/10/2019 “… The three areas that focused on the positive interactions of the parents with their children led to broader changes in the brain’s higher-level cognitive areas. …” Read the entire article: https://goodmenproject.com/families/how-to-make-your-childs-brain-grow-a-new-study-shows-how-powerful-your-parenting-is/

Young man’s death prompts father’s bid to ban caffeine supplement powder

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By Kelly Burke – 7News 07/08/2019 “… Yet the substance, despite being banned in the US last year after the similar death of an 18-year-old Ohio college student, remains legal, and easily available, in Australia. …” Read the entire article: https://7news.com.au/news/health/young-mans-death-prompts-fathers-bid-to-ban-caffeine-supplement-powder-c-204573

Too Much Screen Time for the Kids? Grandparents May Also Be Complicit

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By News Wise 07/08/2019 “… On average, grandparents had more difficulty in managing the media use of boys and older children than of girls and younger children. Boys on average spent 17 minutes more than girls with media related activities. …” Read the entire article: https://www.newswise.com/articles/too-much-screen-time-for-the-kids-grandparents-may-also-be-complicit

Absence of Fathers, Radical Feminism, and Identity Politics Are Hurting Our Boys: Dr. Warren Farrell

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By Jan Jekielek – The Epoch Times 07/06/2019 “…They discuss how growing up without a father in the home affects boys, and how it’s connected with a lack of purpose, mental illness, and a propensity for violence.  …” Read the entire article: https://www.theepochtimes.com/absence-of-fathers-radical-feminism-and-identity-politics-are-hurting-our-boys-dr-warren-farrell_2992422.html

Boys’ next sense of purpose: ‘Father warriors’

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By Warren Farrell – Washington Examiner 06/14/2019 “… The bad news is that this has left many boys with a “purpose void.” As boys with a purpose void have become less-motivated men, more women are interested in having children without having “just one more child I have to support.” Additionally, more children of divorce are READ MORE

J. Pepper Bryars: Dad-deprived homes reach crisis levels in Alabama

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By Alabama Today 06/20/2019 “… While single mothers are making heroic efforts in Alabama, Ferrell said that young men growing up without a father in the house face enormous odds. Boys in this situation, he said, stand a greater chance than their female counterparts of doing poorly in school, being overweight, being both the bully READ MORE

‘They’re just as needed as mothers’: Warren Farrell thinks Father’s Day gets overshadowed

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By Alexis Clark – Nashville Tennessean 06/17/2019 “… Author Warren Farrell spoke in Nashville earlier this month to an audience of 500 about spending more time with family and more specifically, building a father-and-son relationship. …” Read the entire article: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2019/06/17/warren-farrell-fatherhood-summit-nashville/1351197001/