Gaming Violence Linked to Real-Life Agression
The debate has swirled for years about whether more exposure to on-screen violence leads to more real-life violence and aggression.
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Unattainable Beauty
Newsweek has put together a photo gallery of “The decade’s most egregious retouching scandals,” complete with detail notes. The short summary on the title page should be enough to cause us to catch our breath and remember who we are…
Gaming Numbers
Brad Griffin, our FYI Associate Director, forwarded me this creatively done short summary of interesting stats on gaming.
Coming Out in Middle School
If you didn’t see the article in last week’s NY Times school issue titled “Coming Out in Middle School,” you should give it a read.
New Press on Girls and Image
I try to keep track of news on youth in the media, and maybe it’s just me, but I’ve noticed recently a bit more press on girls and image-related issues than usual. Over the past couple of years we’ve written…
The New Goodnight Kiss
There’s a new book and documentary out called Oral Sex Is The New Goodnight Kiss
based on research by Sharlene Azam on teenage prostitution. This isn’t the teen prostitution of the past that primarily involved girls from high-risk settings…
Beyond Skin Deep Responding to Kids Who Cut
For many of the youth we know, cutting and other forms of self-harm have become commonplace coping mechanisms for their pain. Learn more about the reasons behind — and helpful responses to — self-injury among adolescents.
Cosmetic Surgery and Youth Group
Thank goodness. Researchers agree that teens are “mental and physical works in progress.” Whew. At least we have the scientific community on our side.
Meanwhile, cosmetic surgeons continue to alter kids’ bodies each day, to the tune…
The News About Girls?
“Girls today are doing great.” This news link caught my eye today, so I followed up to see what sociologist Michael Males is saying about adolescent girls. This senior researcher for the Center on Juvenile and Criminal…
See Jane Navigate Technology
In Part II of this research series on changes in the landscape of adolescent girls, we take a look at the technology that most impacts girls you know and some ways we can all respond.