By Taylor Harris – Time, 01/11/2022 “… Around that time, I developed the mental hashtag #NotMyBlackBoy. I would repeat it in my head as I prepared to engage educators who would try to convince me that in Tophs’ case, the bare bones would do. ..With an education gap between races that lingers at the threshold READ MORE
Category: Social Issues
City to tackle plight of Black men, boys with new office
By Tiana Woodward – Boston Globe, 02/03/2022 “…The cheers, claps, and amens of more than 40 Black men and allies filled Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Roxbury Thursday morning as Mayor Michelle Wu unveiled the Office for Black Male Advancement, a new entity aimed at addressing the challenges Black men and boys face…” Read READ MORE
Screen Time Linked to Autism Spectrum Disorder in Boys
By HealthDay, 01/31/2022 “…The researchers found that at age 3 years, the prevalence of children with autism spectrum disorder was 392 per 100,000 (0.4 percent) and boys were three times more likely than girls to be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder…” Read the entire article: https://consumer.healthday.com/screen-time-linked-to-autism-spectrum-disorder-in-boys-2656510527.html
Do ADHD Symptoms Differ in Boys and Girls?
By Heather Jones – Very Well Health, 01/17/2022 “…According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as of 2016, approximately 6.1 million children (9.4%) in the United States had an ADHD diagnosis. The rate of diagnosis is higher for boys at 12.9% than for girls at 5.6%…” Read the entire article: https://www.verywellhealth.com/do-adhd-symptoms-differ-in-boys-and-girls-5207995
Screen Time Linked to Autism Spectrum Disorder in Boys
By Consumer Health Day, 01/31/2022 “…Compared with no screen time, one hour or more of screen time at age 1 year linked to significantly increased odds of ASD at age 3 years…” Read the entire article: https://consumer.healthday.com/screen-time-linked-to-autism-spectrum-disorder-in-boys-2656510527.html
A state-funded pre-K program led to ‘significantly negative effects’ for kids in Tennessee
By Jackie Mader – Hechinger Report, 01/24/2022 “…Children who attended Tennessee’s state-funded voluntary pre-K program during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years were doing worse than their peers by the end of sixth grade in academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals…” Read the entire article: https://hechingerreport.org/a-state-funded-pre-k-program-led-to-significantly-negative-effects-for-kids-in-tennessee/?utm_source=The+Hechinger+Report&utm_campaign=82a6ff67db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_01_25_06_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_d3ee4c3e04-82a6ff67db-322934344
Universal sex differences appear in adolescents’ career aspirations, study finds
By Phys.org, 01/26/2022 “…A new analysis by David Geary at the University of Missouri and Gijsbert Stoet at the University of Essex in the United Kingdom finds career aspirations from nearly 500,000 adolescents shows consistent sex differences across 80 nations, suggesting biologically-influenced preferences can play a role in gender segregation in the workplace later in READ MORE
Black, Male Youth at Increased Risk of Attempting Suicide Without Suicide Thoughts and Plans
By Mary Stroka – Psychiatry Advisory, 11/16/2021 “…More boys (63.8%) than girls reported suicide attempt without ideation. Boys were 3.5-times more likely than girls to attempt suicide without ideation and less likely (adjusted odds ratio (AOR), 0.77) to attempt suicide with ideation…..” Read the entire article: https://www.psychiatryadvisor.com/home/topics/child-adolescent-psychiatry/black-male-youth-at-increased-risk-of-attempting-suicide-without-suicide-thoughts-and-plans/
Pandemic Poses Short- and Long-Term Risks to Babies, Especially Boys
By Liz Szabo – KHN, 12/21/2021 “…Boys could face higher risks from covid, even before birth. Males are generally more vulnerable than females as fetuses and newborns; they’re more likely to be born prematurely and to die as infants. Preterm boys also have a higher risk of disability and death…” Read the entire article: https://khn.org/news/article/pandemic-poses-short-and-long-term-risks-to-babies-especially-boys/
Child grooms are often overlooked in the fight to stop child marriage
By NPR 01/02/2022 “… The teenager dreamed of becoming a doctor. But that dream was derailed by child marriage. It’s a familiar story – but in this case the details may surprise you. The 15-year-old wasn’t a child bride. He was a child groom…” Read the entire article: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/02/1066099271/child-grooms-are-often-overlooked-in-the-fight-to-stop-child-marriage