Search is not available for this dataset
query
stringlengths 1
13.4k
| pos
stringlengths 1
61k
| neg
stringlengths 1
63.9k
| query_lang
stringclasses 147
values | __index_level_0__
int64 0
3.11M
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Integrating efforts to prevent HIV other STIs and pregnancy among teens in Minnesota. | In the United States many youth-serving professionals and activists focus on preventing some particular negative health outcome among teens such as unintended pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In other words youth-serving professionals often focus on one facet or another of the lives of youth instead of serving youth more holistically. Integrating their efforts may provide a number of benefits both for the young client and for youth-serving organizations. This document discusses the what why and how the benefits and the challenges of approaching youth holistically and of integrating the sexual health information and services they receive. (excerpt) | Affordability Is Access Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to require health insurance and group health plans to cover, as preventive care for women, over-the-counter oral contraceptives for daily use, regardless of whether an enrollee has a prescription for the contraceptive. (Insurers and plans cannot impose cost sharing for preventive care.) | eng_Latn | 1,900 |
The patron as producer: libraries, web 2.0, and participatory culture | Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a theoretical framework for applying Web 2.0 technologies and design principles to the development of participatory cultures within libraries. A participatory culture is one that focusses on facilitating interaction and the creation of content by users rather than the consumption of content created or compiled by experts. Design/methodology/approach – This study is a literature-based theoretical analysis that explores the role of libraries as agents of cultural hegemony and techniques for developing socially responsible library praxis. It combines insights from a variety of discourses including Western Marxist theories of hegemony, critical theories of library and information science, professional literature regarding “Library 2.0” service models, and media studies theories of participatory culture. Findings – Libraries do not just organize knowledge; they construct it. Furthermore, these constructions tend to reinforce dominant discourses while marginalizin... | ABSTRACTPublic health efforts focused on Latina youth sexuality are most commonly framed by the syndemic of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, a narrow and often heteronormative focus that perpetuates silences that contribute to health inequities and overlooks the growing need for increased education, awareness, and support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. This article presents findings from the project Let’s Talk About Sex: Digital Storytelling for Puerto Rican Latina Youth, which used a culturally centered, narrative-based approach for analyzing participants’ own specifications of sexual values and practices. The strength of digital storytelling lies in its utility as an innovative tool for community-based and culturally situated research, as well as in its capacity to open up new spaces for health communication. Here we present two “coming out” case studies to illustrate the value of digital storytelling in supporting the development of meaningful... | eng_Latn | 1,901 |
Space and Sensibility : Young Men’s Risk-Taking with Motor Vehicles | In this ethnographic study of “Volvo greasers” [Volvoraggare] in a peri-urban community in Sweden, risk-taking practices with motor vehicles, such as speeding and drifting, are explored and analyze ... | This paper reports the results of a three-month randomized controlled trial to estimate the impact of an Internet and mobile telephone short message service (SMS) intervention on adolescents' information about substances and rates of consumption. A low percentage of participants logged on to the Web platform, but most participants were reached through e-mails and SMS. It is found that the intervention was able to affect awareness that certain substances are drugs, but no significant changes in consumption habits were found. | eng_Latn | 1,902 |
Online sexuality education and health professional students' comfort in dealing with sexual issues | A study of comfort level for discussing sex- and sexuality-related topics in a sample of allied health professional students shows an improvement in their comfort level after completing an online sexuality unit. This finding supports the argument that modern technology can offer an excellent opportunity and means to develop personal and professional skills in sex-related issues. Raising the comfort levels of health professional students will better prepare them for professional interaction on sexual issues they could encounter with their clients. Future research examining different ways to build not only comfort levels but also professional communication skills is warranted. Current and future research would aid in development of new programs based on distant education platforms, which could provide effective ways of appropriate sexual-interventions education for health professionals in clinical settings. | Background: A growing literature has emerged in recent years that evaluates combined health effects of environmental exposures and social stressors. To identify and incorporate the potential impact... | eng_Latn | 1,903 |
Sexuality education moves forward in Russia. | Efforts in the late-1980s to provide sex education to young people in Russia were interrupted temporarily by peristroika and the need to focus on political and economic concerns. In the early 1990s several public family planning associations emerged with support from foreign funds and began limited condom distribution programs. Beginning in 1996 a sex and family life education curriculum developed by the Russian Sexological Association will be taught to students in grades 5-11. The curriculum moves from basic facts on reproduction to a consideration in the higher grades of the family the psychological aspects of sexual relationships and interpersonal communication and conflict resolution. Although the comprehensive nature of the curriculum has been commended there is a shortage of educators with the social-psychological background required to present the material. | And a sign dedicated to visible wetness indicator and one sex, disposable wearable absorbent article. | eng_Latn | 1,904 |
Sexual behaviour in university students: Report of a postal survey | A self-administered postal questionnaire was used in a cross-sectional survey of reported sexual behaviour of a random sample of first year university undergraduates. Only 43% answered the questions (149 males and 115 females) despite the cooperation of the Students' Union and assurances of anonymity and confidentiality. The proportions of male and female respondents who reported that they had had sex with another person during the preceding three months were 43.6 and 40.7%, respectively. Twenty-three of the 79 relationships reported by 63 males and 15 of the 61 reported by 45 females were reported as being ‘casual’. The sixty-three males had had casual sex without a condom 72 times in total, and the 45 females 37 times. Twenty-two of the 63 males reported that someone else had swallowed their semen and 11 of the 45 females reported that they had swallowed semen. | To meet the requirement of information times,we should specify the features of information retrieval course of colleges and universities,construct synchronous network operation environment,reform teaching content and examining method,and improve the quality of teaching staff. | eng_Latn | 1,905 |
First AIDS vaccine tested did not protect, but gives scientific leads. | AIDSVAX, the first HIV preventive vaccine to finish a human efficacy trial, did not protect against infection, but is likely to provide much information on designing better vaccines. | Abstract Although there is widespread support for sexuality education, whether to use an abstinence-only or comprehensive approach is hotly debated. This study assessed Florida residents preferred approach to school-based sexuality education. The 641 respondents were selected by random digit dialing, using methods to ensure ethnic and geographic representation. Chi-Squares were used to assess relationships between seven socio-demographic variables and participants' preferred approach to sexuality education. The majority of respondents supported Abstinence-Plus, followed closely by Responsible Decision-making, with few supporting Abstinence-Only. Although in most cases respondents in the various age ranges, education levels, political parties, and political ideologies were most likely to choose Abstinence-Plus, there were some significant differences (p's < 01). Support for sexuality education is widespread in Florida. | eng_Latn | 1,906 |
[How to talk to young people about contraception]. | In the article, the Open Door for the Young, activity of the Finnish Population and Family Welfare Federation is introduced. The writer emphasizes the importance of cooperation and right timing in providing sexual advice to young people. | The higher education industry is increasingly technologically pervasive. Reports of required personal computer purchases or the outright awarding of computers to new students provide examples of the expectations institutions have for students. Little focus, however, has been placed on the preparedness of new college students to cope with the technologically driven campus. This may be particularly true on community college campuses where non-traditional students comprise a large percentage of new students. The current study identified strategies for the exposure of new students to technology during new student orientation programs. By surveying senior student affairs officers in community colleges, institutional email accounts and emphasizing the importance of technology were identified as potentially effective measures for integrating technology exposure and education into new student orientations. | eng_Latn | 1,907 |
A Comparison to Other Deviant Groups | This chapter examines sexually harmful youth in comparison to other delinquent youth, and attempts to understand the similarities and differences. A closer look into special populations of sexually harmful youth, such as young children, females, intellectually disabled and offense specific youth are explored, as well as racial differences and considerations. Lastly, school psychologists will learn about the child and family risk factors associated with sexually harmful youth, as well as offenders risk for recidivism. | Background: The degree of health variation among social groups is an important indicator of population health and the efficiency of economic and social systems. Previous studies revealed existence ... | eng_Latn | 1,908 |
Religiosity and forgiveness among first-married and remarried adults | The current study examined the relationship between religiosity and forgiveness among first-married and remarried adults. Seven hundred and eighty-seven married adults from the Flanders region in Belgium completed the Enright Forgiveness Inventory and a four-item Religiosity Scale measuring forgiveness and religiosity, respectively. The results indicated that religiosity positively correlated (p = 0.0001, r = 0.15) with forgiveness. There was a significant difference between the religiosity of the first-married and the remarried adults (p = 0.0001 (two-tailed) d = 0.61). In an analysis by gender, the women showed a statistically significantly higher religiosity than did men (p = 0.00005 (one-tailed) d = 0.28). Among the demographic variables, age (r = 0.26), number of children (r = 0.35), and number of years in marriage (r = 0.34) showed a statistically significant (p = 0.0001) positive correlation with religiosity. The basic purpose of this study was to inform clinicians of the value of forgiveness and r... | In this paper, we study the effects of youth readership, price of advertisements, and audience size on alcohol advertising in 35 major magazines. The regressions also account for readership demographics (adult reader age, income, gender, race), magazine characteristics (newsstand sales, number of annual issues), and type of beverage (beer, wine, spirits). Using count data models, the results indicate significant effects for price, audience size, and adult demographics, but fail to support claims that alcohol advertisers target adolescent readers. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | eng_Latn | 1,909 |
Young women 'have more sexual partners' than men | Young women are more promiscuous than men, according to a survey that claims the average 21-year-old has had nine sexual partners compared with seven for men. The poll of 2,000 by the magazine More also found that one in four young women has slept with more than 10 people, compared with one in five men who had done the same. In addition, half of those questioned admitted they had been unfaithful, whereas only a quarter said they had been cheated on by a boyfriend. Majority losing (...) | A questionnaire consisting of 60 false statements related to psychology was administered to 531 students at 2 universities. Students marked each statement as true, false, or don't know/no opinion. Analysis of true responses indicated a decreasing level of misconceptions as students accumulated college credit hours in general and psychology credit hours specifically. Implications for teachers of psychology are discussed. | eng_Latn | 1,910 |
Subject-developing potential of high school in development individually-personal features of a student as subject of socialization | In the article specificity of the subject-developing potential of high school in integrity sociocultural-focusing and personal-aligned constructs is proved. The basic priorities of the subject-developing potential of high school (sociocultural integrativity, sociality, antropotcentration, innovation, culturelogics) are characterized. | Working with drug addicts we frequently face patients complains on sexual sphere .Literature doesn't elucidate about the impact of cognitive factors. Aiming to enable a better understanding of the relation between psychoactive substance use and sexuality we proposed to adapt and validate the Substance Use and Sexual Behavior Survey (SUSBS) questionnaire. We studied 488 drug addict subjects, outpatients of the public drug addiction Portuguese centers. Exploratory factor analysis indicated a four- component structure we termed: Inhibitor impact of substance of abuse in sexuality, Indissociability of sexuality and substance use, Enhancer impact of substance in sexuality, Substance use favoring risky sexual behaviors, explained approximately 65% of the total variance. The confirmatory factor analysis exhibited overall fits. The results suggested that the Portuguese version of the SUSBS has adequate psychometric properties. We present a discussion in terms of the questionnaire utility, | eng_Latn | 1,911 |
Contraceptive Counseling for Adolescents | The majority of adolescents become sexually active during their teenage years, making contraceptive counseling an important aspect of routine adolescent healthcare. However, many healthcare providers express discomfort when it comes to counseling adolescents about contraceptive options. This Special Report highlights the evidence supporting age-appropriate contraceptive counseling for adolescents and focuses on best practices for addressing adolescents’ questions and concerns about contraceptive methods. | v List if Tables xi Chapter I: Introduction 1 Purpose 2 Context 4 Framework 6 Limitations 7 Research Questions 8 Definition of Terms 8 Program Evaluation 9 Significance 10 Summary 10 Chapter II: Literature Review 12 Small Schools 12 Large Urban High Schools 16 SLCs and Teachers 17 Change Theory Driving Small School Structural Reform 18 Personalization 20 Advisory Programs 21 History of Advisory Programs 23 Advisory Purpose 26 | eng_Latn | 1,912 |
A comparative study of peer-led and adult-led school sex sducation | There are, and have been, many school-based sex education projects in this country which have used peer leaders (students delivering an educational programme who are of similar, or slightly older, age than the students receiving the programme). Rigorous evaluation of the methodology remains scant. This paper describes a comparative investigation of peer-led and adult-led sex education in National Curriculum Year 9 (aged 13/14 years). The results from this study suggest that peer leaders appear to be more effective in establishing conservative norms and attitudes related to sexual behaviour than the adults. Peer leaders were less effective than adults in imparting factual information and getting students involved in classroom activities. These findings suggest that both adult-led and peer-led methods may have a place in effective sex education--the challenge being to determine which areas are best dealt with by whom. | Proceeding from the necessity of strengthening the informatinization building of the Party school's learner status archives, this paper analyzes the major problems that exist in the management of the current Party school's learner status archives and puts forwards some ways to push ahead the informationization building. | eng_Latn | 1,913 |
Corporate paedophilia: the sexualisation of children in Australia | The sexualisation of Australian children in the interest of corporate profit is increasing and exposes children to a wide range of risks from a very young age, according to an analysis by Emma Rush and Andrea La Nauze. Children are increasingly being portrayed in clothing and posed in ways designed to draw attention to adult sexual features that they do not yet possess in the interest of the corporate bottom line. | Kate Wyndham provides a response to Bruce Cormack and Kate Henley regarding their critique of her analysis on the Portrayal of women in the media. The need to improve and adopt guidelines for non-sexist advertising is highlighted. | eng_Latn | 1,914 |
The use of oral contraceptive pharmaceutical sample packs by adolescent health care providers. | Abstract Study Objective: The purpose of this study was to understand how health care providers use and distribute oral contraceptive pill (OCP) sample packs to adolescents. Design: Qualitative study involving face-to-face structured interviews. Setting: Interviews lasted approximately 20–30 minutes and were done in the health care provider's office setting. Participants: A convenience sample of fourteen health care providers (pediatricians, family practitioners, nurse practitioners, and midwives) who have practices that include adolescents were interviewed. Main Outcome Measures: Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed. Two independent reviewers read the transcripts for themes. Transcripts were then coded and frequency counts were done. Conclusions: OCP sample packs are an important tool for education and compliance. The pharmaceutical OCP sample supply may influence the health care provider's OCP choice for a teen. | As a junior doctor, aside from the predictable daily tasks, I found an all too familiar request from many patients. “Doctor, I had a terrible night’s sleep, you couldn’t prescribe me something could you?” My colleagues were surprised at the frequency of this request—patients’ sleep not being a subject covered in detail when we were medical students. But, whether it’s a nurse thrusting a drug chart in front of us to request sleeping tablets or a … | eng_Latn | 1,915 |
Adolescents, alcohol, and substance abuse : reaching teens through brief interventions | This volume reviews a range of empirically supported approaches to prevention and treatment of adolescent substance use problems. The focus is on motivationally based brief interventions that can be delivered in a variety of contexts, that address key developmental considerations, and that draw on cutting-edge knowledge on addictive behavior change. From expert contributors, coverage encompasses alcohol skills training; integrative behavioral and family therapy; motivational interviewing; interventions for dually diagnosed youth; Internet-based education, prevention, and treatment; and applications to HIV prevention. The volume is extensively referenced and includes numerous clinical illustrations and vignettes. | v List if Tables xi Chapter I: Introduction 1 Purpose 2 Context 4 Framework 6 Limitations 7 Research Questions 8 Definition of Terms 8 Program Evaluation 9 Significance 10 Summary 10 Chapter II: Literature Review 12 Small Schools 12 Large Urban High Schools 16 SLCs and Teachers 17 Change Theory Driving Small School Structural Reform 18 Personalization 20 Advisory Programs 21 History of Advisory Programs 23 Advisory Purpose 26 | eng_Latn | 1,916 |
What is sustaniblity? | What are biofuels and how could they contribute to sustaniblity? | No adolescent appreciates it when a parent what privileges over a weekend even if the privileges were taken away during the week it would be better? | eng_Latn | 1,917 |
What is a good christmas present for a 16 year old? | What is a good present for a 15 year old boy? | Is it ok for young 16 year old kids to have gay sex? | eng_Latn | 1,918 |
How do you care for a 15 year old with bipolar symptoms? | Why do hypoglycemia cause sweating? | Can a 12 year old girl and a 15 year old boy have sex legally? | eng_Latn | 1,919 |
What are the negatine effects of mass media on youth? | Youth and media? | Which can be a positive influence of television? | eng_Latn | 1,920 |
Pros and cons television? | The cons of parents watching their students television viewing? | The cons of parents watching their students television viewing? | eng_Latn | 1,921 |
Six teenagers are aged 13, 13, 14, 16, 18, and 19. What is the median of their ages? | Nearly 3 in 10 young teens 'sexually active' | NBC News Nearly 3 in 10 young teens 'sexually active' NBC News, PEOPLE Magazine commission landmark national poll Below: + - NEW YORK — NBC News and PEOPLE Magazine commissioned a landmark poll surveying young teenagers about their intimate sexual attitudes and practices. In one of the first surveys of its kind, teenagers as young as 13 reveal how much they know about sex and how much they are doing. The poll, conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, questioned 13 to 16 year-olds about their sexual behavior, relationships, oral sex, STDs, and casual sexual partners (what's now known as “friends with benefits”). The findings provide important answers for parents struggling to cope with a newly promiscuous world. Below are the enlightening, and often surprising, answers to the NBC News/PEOPLE Magazine Poll: Sexually active young teens Nearly 3 in 10 (27%) thirteen to sixteen year-olds are sexually active and “have been with someone in an intimate or sexual way.” Most of these sexually active teens have touched someone else’s genitals and almost half had oral sex and/or had sexual intercourse. Sexual activity is much more common among 15 to 16 year-olds (41%) than 13 to 14 year-olds (14%). SUMMARY TABLE: Sexual activity among 13 to 16 year-olds Most 13 to 16-year-olds waiting to have sex The vast majority (87%) of teens aged 13 to 16, have not had sexual intercourse. Most (73%) have not been sexually intimate at all. Seventy-four percent say they have not had sex because they made a conscious decision not to. As many (75%) have not because they believe they are too young. Many say they abstain because they fear the potential consequences—pregnancy (74%), STDs (71%), parents’ reaction (65%). While just more than half say it is because they haven’t met the right person yet (54%), few say it is because of a lack of opportunity (21%). Four in 10 (42%) say they have not because of religious or moral beliefs. SUMMARY TABLE: Why are teens waiting to have sex? Girls are more likely than boys to cite a conscious decision to wait (81% vs. 67%), belief they are too young (82% vs. 67%), fear of pregnancy (77% vs. 71%), STDs (75% vs. 68%), or parents or (71% vs. 59%) friends’ reaction (28% vs. 13%). Fifteen to 16 year-olds are more likely than 13 to 14 year-olds to say they have not had sex because they have not met the right person (62% vs. 47%). Thirteen to 14 year-olds are more likely to say it is because they think they are too young (82% vs. 66%). Teens with a Catholic parent (72%) are more likely to not have had sex because they are worried what their parents will think than those with a Protestant parent (63%) or another religious background (57%). Those whose parents are better educated are more likely to say they have not had intercourse because of their religious or moral beliefs and less likely to say they have not out of a fear of catching an STD. Is Oral Sex Really Not A Big Deal? Most Teens Know What Oral Sex Is Today, 70% of teens, ages 13 to 16, know the definition of oral sex. Knowledge about oral sex is lower among the youngest teens but that knowledge increases with age. While only six in 10 (58%) 13 and 14 year-olds knew what oral sex is a solid majority of 15 and 16 year-olds (82%) know what oral sex is. Is Oral Sex, Sex? Three-quarters of teens would classify oral sex as “sex” (77%), but less than half (45%) would label touching someone's genitals as “sex”. SUMMARY TABLE: What teens believe constitutes sex Is Oral Sex A Big Deal? For many teens (43%), oral sex is not seen as being as big a deal as sexual intercourse. Boys and girls see this somewhat differently. While almost half of boys (47%) think that oral sex is not as big of a deal as sexual intercourse, fewer girls feel that way (38%). This doesn’t mean that teens are dismissive of its significance: Fifty-five percent of teens hold that it is “very important” to be in love before having oral sex. Somewhat more (68%) say it is very important to be in love before having sexual interc | Roman Numerals: MCMLXVIII = 1968 Roman Numerals: MCMLXVIII = 1968 XC IX The converter lets you go from arabic to roman numerals and vice versa. Simply type in the number you would like to convert in the field you would like to convert from, and the number in the other format will appear in the other field. Due to the limitions of the roman number system you can only convert numbers from 1 to 3999 . To easily convert between roman and arabic numerals you can use the table above. The key is to handle one arabic digit at a time, and translate it to the right roman number, where zeroes become empty. Go ahead and use the converter and observe how the table shows the solution in realtime! Current date and time in Roman Numerals 2016-12-29 MMXVI-XII-XXIX XV:XII:XLVII Here is the current date and time written in roman numerals. Since the roman number system doesn't have a zero, the hour, minute, and second component of the timestamps sometimes become empty. The year 1968 The year 1968 began on a Monday and was a leap year. Here you can read more about what happened in the year 1968 . The number 1968 The number 1968 is divisble by 2 , 3 , 4 , 6 , 8 , 12 , 16 , 24 , 41 , 48 , 82 , 123 , 164 , 246 , 328 , 492 , 656 and 984 and can be prime factorized into 24×3×41. 1968 as a binary number: 11110110000 1968 as an octal number: 3660 1968 as a hexadecimal number: 7B0 Numbers close to MCMLXVIII Below are the numbers MCMLXV through MCMLXXI , which are close to MCMLXVIII. The right column shows how each roman numeral adds up to the total. 1000 For example, to express the number 737 in roman numerals you write DCCXXXVII , that is 500 + 100 + 100 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 + 1 + 1. However, for the numbers 4 and 9 , subtraction is used instead of addition, and the smaller number is written in front of the greater number: e.g. 14 is written as XIV , i.e. 10 + 5 − 1, and 199 is expressed as CXCIX i.e. 100 + 100 − 10 + 10 − 1. It could be argued that 199 would be more easily written as CIC, but according to most common definition you can only subtract a number that is one order of magnitude smaller than the numbers you're subtracting from, meaning that IC for 99 is incorrect. Roman numerals are often used in numbered lists, on buildings to state the year they were built, and in names of regents, such as Louis XVI of France. Feel free to link to this site if you find it useful. It's also possible to link directly to specific numbers, such as roman-numerals.info/MMDXLVII or roman-numerals.info/782 . You can also link to intervals, for instance roman-numerals.info/1-100 or roman-numerals.info/1980-2020 , to see the numbers in a list format. | eng_Latn | 1,922 |
Are there prostitutes in mafia 2? | How do you move up to the associate level in mafia wars? | What if you never masturbate and never have a wet dream at age 13? | eng_Latn | 1,923 |
What part of the scientific method is the probable answer? | What part of scientific methods is predicting? | No adolescent appreciates it when a parent what privileges over a weekend even if the privileges were taken away during the week it would be better? | eng_Latn | 1,924 |
How do you convince a teenage girl to have sex with you? | What are the points to convince a girl to have sex with you? | Is sex harmful for a 14 year old boy? | eng_Latn | 1,925 |
Study: Truste Sites Un-Trusty | A Harvard researcher finds that sites certified by Truste are twice as | By David Gambacorta, Philadelphia Daily News Jun. 13--Research has taught the Child Predator Unit this much: One in five girls and one in five boys will be sexually propositioned online during their early adolescence. | kor_Hang | 1,926 |
Texas Sex-Ed Texts Barely Mention Contraceptives | Texas education officials on Friday approved health textbooks for high school students that extol the virtues of sexual abstinence but only make passing mention of contraceptives, which critics say violates state regulations and endangers the health of teens. | A key anti-HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) drug distributed in Africa causes drug resistance in pregnant women, but only if they ignore doctors' orders | yue_Hant | 1,927 |
Time teens spend with dates linked to drug use | Girls with boyfriends two or more years older are more than twice as likely to drink, according to a new national survey. | Another excuse for the kids to hire a hitman An upcoming Xbox 360 dashboard update in early December will add a "Family Timer" feature that lets parents set a limit on gaming time.⦠| eng_Latn | 1,928 |
Teen drinking 'remains a worry' | Although fewer teens are drinking alcohol, those who do drink are consuming more than ever, a national survey reveals. | Letters are being posted to parents across England telling them which secondary schools their children will attend. | eng_Latn | 1,929 |
Toppling Taboo to Warn Teens of Disease | Steve Friedman is used to hearing a few snickers when he talks to teenagers about his battle with testicular cancer. | The Portland, Me., school board voted to allow middle-school students to gain access to prescription birth control medications without notifying parents. | kor_Hang | 1,930 |
Half of Britons 'e-mail addicts' | Half of Britons could not exist without e-mail - with 30 or 40-somethings more addicted than teens, a survey says. | By David Gambacorta, Philadelphia Daily News Jun. 13--Research has taught the Child Predator Unit this much: One in five girls and one in five boys will be sexually propositioned online during their early adolescence. | eng_Latn | 1,931 |
Accidental Porn Catches Unwary | Like any 12-year-old, a sex-tech columnist can stumble across porn when she's not looking for it. In Sex Drive Daily. | Strategically-placed device denies surfers an iFull Here's a Friday afternoon poser for you: what do you do if you're on a beach doing a swimwear shoot for Sports Illustrated and your bikini inexplicably falls off and you're left sprawling butt-naked on the golden sands with your ample charms exposed to the snapper's sweaty lens?⦠| eng_Latn | 1,932 |
Girls, 12, smoke and drink alcohol | SMOKING and drinking among 12-year-old girls is on the rise, a large-scale survey of New South Wales high schools has revealed. Overall, drug use among the student population is falling, which | By 2011, more than half of the population of kids online will be residents of a simulated world of animals and avatars. | eng_Latn | 1,933 |
Chile defends free morning-after pills | Chile's President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday her decision to allow the government to distribute free morning-after contraception pills to girls as young as 14 was a matter of "equality" within Chilean society. | Texas education officials on Friday approved health textbooks for high school students that extol the virtues of sexual abstinence but only make passing mention of contraceptives, which critics say violates state regulations and endangers the health of teens. | eng_Latn | 1,934 |
Mexican students adopt robobabies | Computerised deterrent to teen pregnancies The Mexican state of Chihuahua has formulated a cunning plan to reduce the area's soaring teenage birth rate - obliging youngsters to look after wailing, burping robobabies, Reuters reports.⦠| Can't we all just get along? Robo Developer NASA intends to get more touchy-feely with robots before they take off for the moon again.⦠| eng_Latn | 1,935 |
Abstinence Programs Stretch the Facts -- Post | Youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only sex-education courses frequently receive inaccurate or misleading information, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. | Scientists hope to test a contraceptive dart next year as a new weapon to curb a koala population explosion that has destroyed thousands of trees on an Australian island, a researcher said Sunday. | eng_Latn | 1,936 |
Many teens don't know the law about sex | The tough Georgia law that sent Genarlow Wilson to prison for having oral sex with a fellow teenager has been watered down. But in Georgia  and in many other states  it's still a crime for teenagers to have sex, even if they're close in age. | Camera phones may make great Christmas gifts, but people better not use them for peeping-Tom photos on federal property. | eng_Latn | 1,937 |
Teenagers, Scalpels and Real Cadavers | Some high school biology classes are using real human cadavers to teach students anatomy in a different way. | SMOKING and drinking among 12-year-old girls is on the rise, a large-scale survey of New South Wales high schools has revealed. Overall, drug use among the student population is falling, which | eng_Latn | 1,938 |
Birth Control Allowed at Maine Middle School | The Portland, Me., school board voted to allow middle-school students to gain access to prescription birth control medications without notifying parents. | p2pnet.net News:- Increasing numbers of schools across the US are giving in to virtual blackmail. They're allowing the entertainment industry to turn their institutions into marketing and distribution outlets | eng_Latn | 1,939 |
Sexualisation 'harms' young girls | Sexualised images of girls in advertising and the media harms their mental and physical health, experts warn. | Counter-terror experts analyse a DVD said to glorify suicide bombings after it is found on sale in West Yorkshire. | eng_Latn | 1,940 |
Advertising: Troubling â07 Forecast for the Old-Line Media but Not for the Online | Forecasters predict flat growth at best in ad spending in the traditional media next year, but expect high double-digit percentage gains in online advertising. | According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, one of every seven children between 10 and 17 has been solicited for sex on the Internet. It's the kind of statistic that can frighten parents into pulling the plug. | eng_Latn | 1,941 |
Teen sex habits revealed in survey | NEW YORK - A "substantial minority" of 15-year-olds have had sexual intercourse, according results of a survey of 33,943 adolescents from 24 European and North American countries. | Could it be that the Internet may be good for something after all? It looks like it doesn't create more gambling addicts! Phew! | eng_Latn | 1,942 |
Teen Sex Rates Stop Falling, Data Show | The long decline in sexual activity among U.S. teenagers, hailed as one of the nation's most important social and public health successes, appears to have stalled. | p2pnet.net News:- Increasing numbers of schools across the US are giving in to virtual blackmail. They're allowing the entertainment industry to turn their institutions into marketing and distribution outlets | kor_Hang | 1,943 |
Study: Counseling Can Reduce Youth Drinking | New research says greater use of brief counseling by primary-care doctors can reduce drinking among young adults aged 18 to 30, Health Day News reported Oct. 5. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and | Could it be that the Internet may be good for something after all? It looks like it doesn't create more gambling addicts! Phew! | eng_Latn | 1,944 |
Tempted by Adelphia? | Should the cable giants fight the urge to splurge on ailing Adelphia? | By David Gambacorta, Philadelphia Daily News Jun. 13--Research has taught the Child Predator Unit this much: One in five girls and one in five boys will be sexually propositioned online during their early adolescence. | eng_Latn | 1,945 |
Cervical cancer more prevalent in older women, black women than thought | According to a new study in Cancer, the incidence of cervical cancer in older women may be higher than has been previously reported. | Abstract Study Objective: The purpose of this study was to understand how health care providers use and distribute oral contraceptive pill (OCP) sample packs to adolescents. Design: Qualitative study involving face-to-face structured interviews. Setting: Interviews lasted approximately 20–30 minutes and were done in the health care provider's office setting. Participants: A convenience sample of fourteen health care providers (pediatricians, family practitioners, nurse practitioners, and midwives) who have practices that include adolescents were interviewed. Main Outcome Measures: Interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed. Two independent reviewers read the transcripts for themes. Transcripts were then coded and frequency counts were done. Conclusions: OCP sample packs are an important tool for education and compliance. The pharmaceutical OCP sample supply may influence the health care provider's OCP choice for a teen. | eng_Latn | 1,946 |
Why people crazy after sex? | Are teens crazy? | Im a virgin and you miss your period? | eng_Latn | 1,947 |
What are health risks for teen moms? | Is teen pregnancy a major health concern? | Is teen pregnancy a major health concern? | eng_Latn | 1,948 |
'20% chlamydia rate' in young men | One in five men in their early 20s in England has chlamydia, the results of a national screening programme suggest. | Brighton becomes the first city to attempt a ban on reggae and rap albums with "anti-gay" lyrics. | eng_Latn | 1,949 |
Other risk factors include diabetes , being uncircumcised , and having a large prostate . | Other risk factors include diabetes , being circumcised , and having a large prostate ( a gland around the urethra in males ) . | In the book `` Human Sexuality : Diversity in Contemporary America '' , by Strong , Devault and Sayad , the authors point out , `` A baby boy may laugh in his crib while playing with his erect penis ( although he does not ejaculate ) . | eng_Latn | 1,950 |
Young people who watch pornography at a young age are more likely to engage in sexual behaviour early on .
Pornography has been linked with inconsistent condom use .
The survey found Australians aged between 15 and 29 indicated that they viewed porn, with 14 being the average age of first viewing the material . | While porn has long been blamed for a rise in risky sexual behaviours among teenagers, those who watch it weekly are more likely to have sex without protection, a new study shows. The research on sexual health has found that young people who watch pornography at a young age are more likely to engage in sexual behaviour early on. And watching pornography weekly was significantly associated with inconsistent condom use with casual partners, engaging in anal intercourse and sexting. Watching pornography weekly was significantly associated with inconsistent condom use with casual partners . The Burnet institute's Centre for Population Health found Australians who viewed adult material at a younger age have a significantly earlier sexual debut. Lead researcher Dr Megan Lim said while sexual behaviour is incredibly complex, there is a strong co-relation between watching porn and sexual behaviour. ‘What we found is there is an association, so that young people who watch porn are also more likely to engage in certain behaviours,’ Dr Lim told AAP. ‘Young people who are more interested in a variety of different sexual things, a bit more sexually developed, are the ones who watch porn more.’ Young people who watch pornography at a young age are more likely to engage in sexual behaviour early on . ‘The people who watch porn are the same people who don't use a condom.’ More than 70 per cent of surveyed Australians aged between 15 and 29 indicated that they viewed pornography, with 14 being the average age of first viewing the material. An associated study found that there is an alarming disconnect between teenagers' perceptions of sexting and the actions they take. While 77 per cent of respondents agreed that 'it should be illegal to pass on a sext without permission', a third said that they 'might show a sext' they received to friends. Dr Lim said a higher percentage of homosexual Australians regularly watched porn compared with heterosexuals. The research will be presented at the 2014 Sexual Health Conference in Sydney on Thursday. | By . Emma Innes . Facebook is already awash with selfies of makeup-free women - and makeup-wearing men – attempting to raise money for breast cancer charities. Now, a cervical cancer charity has launched a new app in a bid to raise awareness of the importance of attending cervical screenings. Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust has released the app as part of their Put Yourself In The Picture campaign. When Jade Goody was diagnosed with cervical cancer the number of women attending cervical screening soared. It has now dropped to 'pre-Jade Goody' levels with 80 per cent of women taking up their invites . The campaign is aiming to raise awareness of the screening which is thought to save 5,000 lives a year. It has been launched to coincide with the five year anniversary of the death of Jade Goody. When the reality television star died of cervical cancer in 2009, more than 400,000 extra women in England were screened for the disease. However, the number of people attending screenings has now fallen back to 'pre-Jade Goody' levels. Cervical cancer is largely preventable thanks to the screening programme and the HPV vaccine. The screening aims to pick up pre-cancerous cells which can be treated before they even become cancerous. However, . one in five women who are eligible for screening – that is those . between the ages of 25 and 64 - do not take up the offer. A new app allows people to upload selfies and to share them with family and friends on social media while pledging to attend cervical screening. Jade Goody is pictured arriving at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital . For women aged 25 to 29, the figure rises to one in three. On average, younger women wait for 15 months after receiving their . invitation before they attend, while among older women the average delay . is 33 months. The Put Yourself In The Picture app . aims to get people talking about cervical cancer again and to encourage . them to attend a screening. It . allows people to upload a selfie into a digital picture frame and to . share it with friends and family on Facebook and Twitter. The app, which has been launched by a cervical cancer charity, aims to encourage women to attend cervical screening. Image shows how the selfies look when they are uploaded using the app . Through the app women can also pledge to attend cervical screening and to encourage their friends and family to do the same. The app’s release comes after research revealed that the main reason young women do not attend screening is that they keep putting it off. However, 26 per cent of non-attenders say they do not attend because they are worried it would be painful or embarrassing, and 10 per cent say they put it off because they are worried about what the results might say. The charity hopes the app will be successful as the research also showed 30 per cent of young women said they felt a friend reassuring them about the procedure would encourage them to attend. Cervical screening aims to pick up pre-cancerous cells which can be treated before they become cancerous. Image shows the homepage of the app . Robert Music, Chief Executive of Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, said: ‘It’s very worrying that five years after Jade Goody’s death 20 per cent of women still don’t attend a cervical screening which can prevent cervical cancer. ‘By launching an app which enables people to literally “put themselves in the picture” on cervical screening, we hope to put cervical screening at the forefront of women’s minds so that they don’t ignore their incredibly important screening invitation. ‘The app has been designed so that people can share their pictures and pledges on social media, so together we can address the decline in uptake of cervical screening in the UK.’ Every day in the UK, eight women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and almost three die of the disease. To download the app, visit www.jostrust.org.uk/selfie . | eng_Latn | 1,951 |
Why HPV Vaccination Of Boys May Be Easier | When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended a half-dozen years ago that preteen girls be vaccinated against human papillomavirus, two things happened. A lot of parents and some conservative groups were jarred by the idea of immunizing young girls against a sexually transmitted virus. And uptake of the vaccine has been poor — only about a third of 13- to 17-year-old girls have gotten the full three-shot series. Now, in the wake of a CDC expert panel's recommendation to extend vaccination to 11- and 12-year-old boys, there's reason to think things might be different this time. Continue Reading "There's been a surprisingly muted reaction," says Dr. Don Dizon, a Brown University oncologist. "We tend to believe that girls are chaste and are going to 'save themselves for marriage.' But, you know, sexual activity is something that's almost expected of boys." Seventeen-year-old Connor Perruccello-McClellan agrees. The idea that teenage girls might have sex is "just a touchy issue, a taboo, I guess," he says. "It's just not as accepted for girls." Perruccello-McClellan, a senior at Providence Country Day School in Rhode Island, is among the 1 percent of U.S. males who have already been vaccinated against HPV. That's because Rhode Island has one of the nation's most aggressive campaigns to vaccinate schoolchildren against nine different infections, including HPV. Still, like most people, he thought HPV vaccine protects only against cervical cancer — a notion that may have abetted the double standard associated with it. Cervical cancer is why the vaccine originally got approved. But that's not the whole story. HPV causes a half-dozen different kinds of cancer, and some are gender-neutral. Some of these malignancies are sex-specific: cancers of the cervix, vagina and vulva in females; penile cancer in boys; both get HPV-associated genital warts. But both sexes get anal cancer linked to HPV — sometimes without ever having had anal sex. That's because the virus can migrate from the genitalia. And even though anal cancer is thought to be mainly a risk among men who have sex with men, more women get it than men. But Dizon worries most about cancers of the head and neck — devastating, often disfiguring and hard-to-treat malignancies that used to be strongly linked to smoking and alcohol abuse. "There's an epidemic of head and neck cancers, and we are seeing this increase in ... nonsmokers," he says. "And it's being tied to HPV." Around 50,000 Americans will get head and neck cancers this year, versus 12,000 cervical cancers and 1,400 penile cancers. The fact that HPV is linked to a variety of cancers has important implications for vaccination strategy. For one thing, it's clear that HPV is not just transmitted through sexual intercourse. "Diseases like HPV or herpes are skin-to-skin transmitted," says Dr. Michelle Forcier, a specialist in adolescent medicine at Hasbro Children's Hospital in Providence. "So while condoms are very effective in preventing transmission, it's not 100 percent." There's a whole range of sexual behaviors that can transmit HPV, many of them the kinds of things teenagers experiment with. That makes it tricky to wait until kids are just about to have sex before vaccinating them. To be protected, they need three shots of HPV vaccine over a six-month period. "But teens don't plan when they have sex," Forcier says. "They don't go to their mom and dad and say, 'Oh, I'm 16 now and I think I'm going to have sex in the next six months, so I'd better get vaccinated.' " That's why the experts are saying to parents of both sons and daughters that it's better to get ahead of the game. | A new study reinforces the notion that a father's absence during his daughter's childhood can have a negative impact on the girl's sexual behavior. But the research challenges previous studies suggesting poverty is the main reason such girls are at a higher risk for early sexual activity and pregnancy. NPR's Rachel Jones reports. | kor_Hang | 1,952 |
What percent of the teenage population is affected by herpes and HPV? | In contemporary society, adolescents also face some risks as their sexuality begins to transform. While some of these, such as emotional distress (fear of abuse or exploitation) and sexually transmitted infections/diseases (STIs/STDs), including HIV/AIDS, are not necessarily inherent to adolescence, others such as teenage pregnancy (through non-use or failure of contraceptives) are seen as social problems in most western societies. One in four sexually active teenagers will contract an STI. Adolescents in the United States often chose "anything but intercourse" for sexual activity because they mistakenly believe it reduces the risk of STIs. Across the country, clinicians report rising diagnoses of herpes and human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause genital warts, and is now thought to affect 15 percent of the teen population. Girls 15 to 19 have higher rates of gonorrhea than any other age group. One-quarter of all new HIV cases occur in those under the age of 21. Multrine also states in her article that according to a March survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, eighty-one percent of parents want schools to discuss the use of condoms and contraception with their children. They also believe students should be able to be tested for STIs. Furthermore, teachers want to address such topics with their students. But, although 9 in 10 sex education instructors across the country believe that students should be taught about contraceptives in school, over one quarter report receiving explicit instructions from school boards and administrators not to do so. According to anthropologist Margaret Mead, the turmoil found in adolescence in Western society has a cultural rather than a physical cause; they reported that societies where young women engaged in free sexual activity had no such adolescent turmoil. | The clearance of the pathogens, either treatment-induced or spontaneous, it can be influenced by the genetic variants carried by the individual patients. For instance, for genotype 1 hepatitis C treated with Pegylated interferon-alpha-2a or Pegylated interferon-alpha-2b (brand names Pegasys or PEG-Intron) combined with ribavirin, it has been shown that genetic polymorphisms near the human IL28B gene, encoding interferon lambda 3, are associated with significant differences in the treatment-induced clearance of the virus. This finding, originally reported in Nature, showed that genotype 1 hepatitis C patients carrying certain genetic variant alleles near the IL28B gene are more possibly to achieve sustained virological response after the treatment than others. Later report from Nature demonstrated that the same genetic variants are also associated with the natural clearance of the genotype 1 hepatitis C virus. | eng_Latn | 1,953 |
Stop Your Teen from Abusing Steroids | Steroid abuse has become an increasingly serious problem amongst teens in recent years. [1] . If you think your teen is abusing steroids, it's important to pay close attention to any changes in your teen's physical appearance and behavior before talking to them about it. | Ever woken up on the wrong side of the bed? Need to get your blood pumping for the day? Never fear! This article is for you! | eng_Latn | 1,954 |
When did you decide not to swallow? | The question IS when did your MOM stop swallowing | Do it? Like as in have sex? I guess 5th grade is old enough to learn about family life and sex education in school. Sex isn't gross but it does take two responsible and mature individuals. It's a beautiful thing. Good luck with your project. | eng_Latn | 1,955 |
School-based intervention for the prevention of HPV among adolescents: a cluster randomised controlled study | Health Belief Model applied to non-compliance with HPV vaccine among female university students | IMAGE ANALOGIES | eng_Latn | 1,956 |
why does teenage pregnancy affects the future of both the child and mother | Teenage pregnancy affects the future of both,the child and the mother. When a baby is born to a teenage mother, he is likely to have more difficulty acquiring cognitive and language skills as well as social and emotional skills like self-control and self-confidence. Medical Complications. | How does being pregnant affect a teenage mother? Simply put, it affects every aspect of her physical and mental well-being while she is pregnant and even after the baby is born. | eng_Latn | 1,957 |
Is drinking piss safe? | Why do preeteen girls piss outside? | Why should teenagres not drink? | eng_Latn | 1,958 |
How does teenage pregnancy affect society? | How does teenage pregnancy affect education? | What is the downside of legalizing marijuana? | eng_Latn | 1,959 |
Less Sleep, More Time Online Raise Risk For Teen Depression | The teenage years are a tumultuous time, with about 11 percent developing depression by age 18. Lack of sleep may increase teenagers' risk of depression, two studies say. Teenagers who don't get enough sleep are four times as likely to develop major depressive disorder as their peers who sleep more, according to researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston. They tracked the habits of more than 4,000 adolescents over a year. And already depressed teens were four times as likely to lose sleep. "That's a pretty strong reciprocal relationship," says behavioral scientist Robert Roberts, the study's lead author. The trend remained even after the researchers adjusted the data to account for demographic differences. The findings were published last week in the journal Sleep. It's all the more reason that parents should try to monitor how much their kids are sleeping, Roberts tells Shots. "Kids should go to bed at a regular time. They should wake up at a regular time. They should have a dark room if possible — that means no TV, no games, no phones." A lot of adolescents just aren't getting as much sleep at they should. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends nine to 10 hours, but 70 percent of high schoolers don't meet that requirement In a second study, researchers in Sweden found that lack of sleep and excessive media use were associated with mental health problems in teens. The researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm collected data from over 12,000 European adolescents. They were looking for behaviors that were most associated with depression and suicide in teens. It came as no surprise that teens who misused drugs and skipped school were more likely to have depression, says Danuta Wasserman, one of the study's authors and the director of Karolinska 's National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention. But the teens who engaged in risky behaviors weren't the only ones who showed depressive symptoms. Depression and suicidal thoughts were just as common among kids who didn't sleep and exercise enough, and who spent a lot of time on the Internet. Both groups were over three times as likely to have depression as the rest of their peers. Wasserman says she and her colleagues decided to call the latter the "invisible risk" group, because most parents and teachers didn't realize that the kids in that group were hurting. The study was published Monday in the Journal Word Psychiatry. Wasserman says more research needs to be done before we can know how Internet use affects depression, and how depressed kids are likely to use the Internet. It could be a way to avoid social interaction, but it could also be a place where kids seek out help, she says. But Wasserman says that she wasn't surprised that teens in this invisible risk group weren't getting enough sleep. There's plenty of evidence on the link between sleep problems and depression in teenagers and adults. But teens are especially susceptible to loosing sleep. During puberty, circadian rhythms change, and teens want to sleep and wake up later, Roberts says. At the same time, in high school homework gets harder, kids start to take on part time jobs, and their social lives amp up. "When you throw in all the video games and iPods and all the phones," Roberts says, sleep starts to become less of a priority. Early school start times don't help, he says. Parents all over the country are petitioning for legislation that would move high school start times later. "[Sleep deprivation] is a highly prevalent public health problem," Roberts says. If parents and teachers are able to pick up early on that teenagers aren't sleeping enough, they might be able to help before things get worse. | Recent sex abuse scandals in the news are creating a fear of men when it comes to relationships with children, according to <em>Wall Street Journal</em> columnist Jeff Zaslow, who's written on the subject. Zaslow explains why he thinks the perceptions are "over the top." | kor_Hang | 1,960 |
More Girls Take Part in High School Wrestling | In many schools, girls who want to wrestle must practice with, and compete against, boys. | Five years ago Japanese women's rights advocates won their battle to legalize the birth control pill. Now they are waging an even tougher fight — getting women to use it. | eng_Latn | 1,961 |
Teenage Brains Are Malleable And Vulnerable, Researchers Say | Adolescent brains have gotten a bad rap, according to neuroscientists. It's true that teenage brains can be impulsive, scientists reported at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in New Orleans. But adolescent brains are also vulnerable, dynamic and highly responsive to positive feedback, they say. "The teen brain isn't broken," says Jay Giedd, a child psychiatry researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health. He says the rapid changes occurring in the brains of teenagers make these years "a time of enormous opportunity." Part of the bad rap has come from studies suggesting that adolescent brains are "wired" to engage in risky behavior such as drug use or unsafe sex, says BJ Casey of Weill Cornell Medical College. Continue Reading These studies have concluded that teens are prone to this sort of behavior because the so-called reward systems in their brains are very sensitive while circuits involved in self-control are still not fully developed, Casey says. The result has been a perception that "adolescents are driving around with no steering wheel and no brake," she says. Casey says a new study from her lab makes it clear that this isn't the case. The study had teens and adults play a game where they got points for correctly answering questions about the motions of dots on a screen. Meanwhile researchers measured activity in brain regions involved in decisions and rewards. When a lot of points were at stake, teens actually spent more time studying the dots than adults and brain scans showed more activity in brain regions involved in making decisions. "Instead of acting impulsively, the teens are making sure they get it right," Casey says. She says this shows how teens' sensitivity to rewards can sometimes lead to better decisions. Two other studies presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting showed that the adolescent brain is literally shaped by experiences early in life. One of the studies involved 113 men who were monitored for depression from age 10 and then had brain scans at age 20. The scans showed that men who'd had an episode of depression had brains that were less responsive to rewards. "They can't respond naturally when something good happens," says Erika Forbes at the University of Pittburgh. She says this shows why it's important to treat problems like depression in teens. The other study looked at how the brain's outer layer of cortex, which plays a critical role in thinking and memory, was affected by childhood experiences in 64 people. It found that this layer was thicker in children who got a lot of cognitive stimulation and had nurturing parents, says Martha Farrah of the University of Pennsylvania. Finally, a study by researchers in the U.S. and U.K. showed how much the brain changes during adolescence in regions involved in social interactions. The study involved 288 people whose brains were scanned repeatedly starting at age 7. And the scans revealed dramatic structural changes during adolescence in four regions that help us understand the intentions, beliefs and desires of others, says Kathryn Mills of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience in London. The results show that the tremendous social changes teenagers go through are reflected in their brains, Mills says. They also show that these changes continue beyond the teen years she says. | Fresh Air Weekend highlights some of the best interviews and reviews from past weeks, and new program elements specially paced for weekends. Our weekend show emphasizes interviews with writers, filmmakers, actors and musicians, and often includes excerpts from live in-studio concerts. This week: Author Gives Advice For Young Adults And Reflects On Growing Up Black In A White World: Julie Lythcott-Haims' new book, Your Turn: How to Be an Adult, is a handbook on adulthood. Her 2017 memoir, Real American, is the story of her coming to terms with her racial identity. Vincent Herring Infuses Jazz With Bold Strokes And Swagger On 'Minor Swing': Herring is an alto saxophonist with a dynamic sound and aggressive attitude. His new album features jazz with a big dollop of swing rhythm and blues feeling. Cheap, Legal And Everywhere: How Food Companies Get Us 'Hooked' On Junk: Reporter Michael Moss says processed foods can be as alluring in some ways as cocaine or cigarettes. His new book explains how companies keep us snacking by appealing to nostalgia and brain chemistry. You can listen to the original interviews and review here: Author Gives Advice For Young Adults And Reflects On Growing Up Black In A White World Vincent Herring Infuses Jazz With Bold Strokes And Swagger On 'Minor Swing' Cheap, Legal And Everywhere: How Food Companies Get Us 'Hooked' On Junk | eng_Latn | 1,962 |
Sports doping seen among pre-teens | NEW YORK - Just over 1 percent of eleven-year-olds admit to using drugs to boost their athletic performance, a new study from France shows. Furthermore, four years later, 3 percent said they had used doping agents at least once during the previous month. | The Portland, Me., school board voted to allow middle-school students to gain access to prescription birth control medications without notifying parents. | eng_Latn | 1,963 |
Navigating A New (Paying) Era For College Athletes | At least five states will allow college athletes to earn money off the use of their name, image and likeness. The NCAA and Congress are racing to enact legislation prevent unfairness in recruiting. | Many students face rising costs of birth control treatments on college campuses. <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> columnist Mary Mitchell and Laura Sessions Stepp, author of <em>Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both</em>, talk about birth control and sex on campuses. | eng_Latn | 1,964 |
Ugandan youth urged to abstain from sex until marriage | Ugandan youth have been urged to play a leading role in promoting messages of abstinence from premarital sex as a way of safeguarding themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually | A woman in Germany who became pregnant after an online sex auction has won a court battle to force the Web site that hosted the sale to reveal the names of the winners, so she can find out who's the father. | eng_Latn | 1,965 |
Teenagers 'smoke to ease labour' | Pregnant teenagers smoke to try to reduce the size of their babies, and make delivery less painful, a minister claims. | Sixth formers ask Jeeves for information on the heart and get links to hardcore porn. | eng_Latn | 1,966 |
Youngsters 'more at risk from binge drinking, drug taking and STDs than ever before'
Lancet report identifies new risks including cyber-bullying and 'sexting' | By . Daily Mail Reporter . PUBLISHED: . 20:12 EST, 24 April 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 20:23 EST, 24 April 2012 . Problem: Britain has the third highest proportion of sexually active teens and some the worst levels of underage drinking . Britain has the third highest proportion of sexually active teenagers in the world as well as some of the worst levels of harmful underage drinking, it has been revealed. Shocking statistics published in the medical journal the Lancet show that youngsters are more at risk from binge drinking, drug taking and sexually transmitted diseases than ever before. The research found that sexual activity among 13 to 15-year-olds was highest among girls in Denmark followed by Iceland, the UK and Sweden. Greece and Denmark had the highest rates among boys. The lowest rates in boys were in Belgium, and for girls Israel. England had the fourth highest percentage of youngsters who have been drunk by the age of 13 in a league table of 40 mostly high income countries. Wales was fifth and Scotland eighth. Wales was third for those drinking weekly at the age of 15, with England fourth and Scotland again eighth. The figures are taken from 2006, the last year with internationally comparable data, with new estimates in the coming months set to provide an opportunity for the UK to assess whether policies to reduce harmful drinking among teenagers have had any impact over the past five years. Teenagers' general well being has . improved far less over the last 50 years than that of children under 10 . with evidence suggesting adolescence is not the healthiest time of life, . as is often assumed. A . lack of focus on adolescent health could be described as a 'missing . link' in the approach to health, an international team of scientists . warn. The statistics are revealed in two . studies by Professor George Patton, of the University of Melbourne in . Australia, and colleagues which was published in The Lancet Series on . Adolescent Health. The . first paper says even the explosion in social media such as Facebook and . Twitter has both good and bad points for young people. Peer pressure: Statistics published in the medical journal the Lancet show that youngsters are more at risk from drug taking and sexually transmitted diseases than ever before . While it enables them to be catalysts for community change, as happened in the uprisings of the Middle East and North Africa, it also exposes adolescents to new risks such as cyber-bullying, and sexting, the act of sending sexually explicit or pornographic messages by mobile phone. There are now some 1.8 billion adolescents aged between ten and 24 in the world today, comprising more than a quarter of the population. The researchers said with longer periods in education, and significant delays to marriage or settling down, the period during which young people are exposed to the risks of adolescence has extended significantly. Such behaviours include harmful alcohol consumption and illicit drug use with peers, and sex with more casual partners, increasing the risk of sexually transmitted infections. Prof Patton said: 'The present generation of young people will take a different path through adolescence from previous generations and will face new challenges to their health and well-being along the way.' Programmes to promote maternal, . newborn and child health across countries of all incomes have led to . more children surviving and the current adolescent population boom, . known as the 'youth bulge'. Over . the same period digital media, industrialisation, globalisation and . urbanisation have changed traditional family and community influences, . resulting in less 'social scaffolding' of adolescents. The . researchers said many health-related behaviours that usually start in . adolescence such as smoking and drinking, obesity and physical . inactivity contribute to the epidemic of non-communicable diseases . including heart disease, cancer, diabetes and lung disease. New threat: The explosion in social media exposes adolescents to new risks such as cyber-bullying . Studies on adolescent brains suggest they are more affected than adults by exciting or stressful situations when making decisions. Increased activity in the nucleus accumbens, a reward and pleasure centre, appears linked to this. While the death rate among under fives has declined by 80 per cent or more in many countries in the past fifty years, adolescent mortality has only marginally improved. The major causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALYS), a measure that combines burden of mortality and disease, in adolescents are alcohol use (seven per cent), unsafe sex (four per cent), iron deficiency (three per cent), lack of contraception (two per cent) and drugs abuse (two per cent). Prof Patton said: 'Irrespective of region, most adolescent deaths are preventable and thus strongly justify worldwide action to enhance adolescent health. 'In view of their dynamic and challenging health profile, the contribution of adolescent health to the global burden of disease, and the important effect of adolescents and their health across the life course, adolescents should be more prominent within future global public health policies and programming.' The second paper revealed the UK had the fifteenth lowest rate for adolescent mortality in a league of 27 high income countries. The UK was also mid ranking for both boys and girls in cannabis use. Surprisingly, despite its obesity epidemic, boys aged 13 to 15 in the USA exercised more than boys in any other of the 16 countries reporting data, and American girls had the second highest levels of exercise behind Ireland, which was in second place for boys. The UK finished eighth best for girls in the amount of exercise they did, and fifth best for boys out of sixteen countries reporting data. Prof Patton added: 'For the largest generation in the world's history, the available global profile of youth health is worrying.' | Long Beach, California (CNN) -- Taylor Wilson is going to create a safer source of nuclear energy, help reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons, screen container ships for weapons and power manned missions to other planets. But first ... he has to graduate high school in May. Jack Andraka is going to bring his 3-cent screening test for pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer to market -- an alternative to a standard $800 test. But Jack, 16, hasn't been to high school much lately and isn't even sure he'll graduate. The two teenagers with Justin Bieber style haircuts wowed the 1,400 people who attended TED2013 this week, fitting the conference's theme: "The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered." They were among a number of youthful speakers who Time magazine's Ruth Davis Konigsberg called "some of the biggest showstoppers at the annual event." By contrast, some of the older voices onstage struck notes that were far less hopeful. Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon declared that the era of strong economic growth in the United States is over -- as America faces the headwinds of an aging population, debt, inequality and educational weaknesses; he argued that it's hard to foresee innovations that could have the transformative effect electricity, indoor plumbing and the internal combustion engine had in powering growth in the past century. Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, calling for a private sector-funded "race to the top" among states, lamented the inability of Washington politicians to develop a national energy strategy. She got laughs when she noted that Congress' approval rating is worse than lice, root canals and Donald Trump (although better than that of gonorrhea and meth labs). TED.com: Granholm's clean energy proposal . And Lawrence Lessig, an author and professor at Harvard Law School, sketched an even starker picture of political dysfunction, a "pathological, democracy-destroying corruption" in which a tiny minority of Americans representing powerful interests use their campaign donations to determine which candidates survive the primaries. Even against long odds, Lessig said the problem is fixable if enough Americans organize to bring about change. There were other speakers whose inventiveness and ambition were unambiguously upbeat. Jane Chen spoke about developing a lower-tech method to save the lives of premature and low birthweight babies in regions where access to incubators isn't readily available. Her social enterprise Embrace distributes a specially engineered and heated sleeping bag that provides babies the heat they can't generate on their own until they're developed enough to survive. Google CEO Sergey Brin demonstrated Google Glass, a smartphone-like piece of headgear that enables access to your contacts, your e-mail, your searches and your photos. His pitch for the device -- now being tested by a select few for $1,500 apiece and due on the market later this year -- is partly that it frees people up from the "nervous habit" of constantly checking their smartphone as they walk: "Is this what you're meant to do with your body?" TED.com: Amanda Palmer -- the art of asking . David Lang, talked of his Open ROV project, which markets an $800 kit -- using off-the-shelf parts -- for a remotely operated underwater vehicle that gives its makers the ability to explore underwater worlds in James Cameron fashion. PayPal co-founder Elon Musk didn't mention his recent dispute with a New York Times reporter over the battery range of the all-electric Tesla Model S, but made a case for the car's virtues before describing his effort to market solar panels to homeowners and businesses and his SpaceX commercial venture to the heavens. He screened a video of a reusable 12-story-tall rocket launching, hovering and then returning to a launchpad ready for another flight. SpaceX capsule reaches International Space Station . Keller Rinaudo demoed Romo, a $150 iPhone-powered robot that recently launched. It uses the brains of the phone's computer chip, its camera and a plastic chassis with tank-style treads to zip around a room, express emotions, interact with owners, kids and pets, and function as "Skype on wheels" for grandparents dropping in for a virtual visit. Edith Widder, part of the three-person team that developed the device that lured a giant squid to an underwater camera, explained how it was able to get the first-ever video displaying the enormous size and intricacy of the animal in the deep ocean. 13-year old invents system to protect family livestock from lions . Ron Finley, an activist in South Central Los Angeles, is leading an effort to counter the neighborhood's "food desert," by growing fruits and vegetables on city owned and private land. "If kids grow kale, they'll eat kale," he said. "If kids grow tomatoes, they'll eat tomatoes." Renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado showed finely etched works from his forthcoming book "Genesis," a 50-pound, $3,000 behemoth (there's a less elegant and smaller version for under $70) that does justice to the detail of his exquisitely composed black and white photos shot around the world. TED.com: Sugata Mitra -- build a school in the cloud . Stewart Brand, the 78-year-old technologist who came to fame as editor of "The Whole Earth Catalog," introduced an ambitious plan to recreate extinct species, using DNA from museum specimens. The effort, echoing "Jurassic Park", won't bring back dinosaurs -- their DNA didn't survive the tens of millions of years since they disappeared -- but aims to "de-extinct" such species as the passenger pigeon, declared extinct in 1914. TED normally attracts an audience of the elite of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and venture capital, along with foundation and corporate CEOs, who pay $7,500 for the five-day event, which is moving next year from Long Beach to Vancouver. (CNN has a partnership with TED in which it publishes selected TED Talks along with text pieces by speakers). TED stands for "technology, entertainment and design," although its subject matter has branched out widely since its founding nearly 30 years ago. The ingenuity of this year's youthful speakers was remarkable, and so was the confident way they expressed their ideas. Wilson, 18, is finishing high school while also attending the University of Nevada at Reno. He first attracted attention for creating a nuclear fusion reactor at 14. In his TED Talk, he argued for an alternative to the most widely used nuclear power technologies. Rather than create electricity by heating water and turning a turbine, Wilson's new reactor would use nuclear fission to produce energy from molten salt. His plan would be to centrally manufacture small fission reactors and distribute them widely for burial underground. He said they could last for 30 years without refueling, compared with 18 months for larger commercial reactors. Since the reactors would not be pressurized, radioactivity would not be expelled as widely into the environment as in an accident like the Fukushima disaster, Wilson said. Costs would be lower since reactors would not have to be built onsite. Nuclear weapons could be recycled in the reactor, he said. And most exciting to the young space geek, such a reactor could power a spaceship to a distant planet and then be the power source for a human base at the destination, he said. Andraka, who's 16 and a high school sophomore, won the top prize in the Intel Science Fair competition for his cancer screening test, which relies in part on carbon nanotubes to detect a protein that is present in the blood and urine in the early stages of the three deadly cancers, providing hope that they can be detected in time for a successful cure. He told CNN in an interview that he doesn't go to high school much anymore but is busy with other projects -- including inventing an MRI the size of a credit card and leading a team of high school students competing for the $10 million Tricorder X Prize to design a handheld device people could use to monitor their health. Andraka and Wilson probably don't have to worry about it but another speaker added a sobering element to the celebration of youth at TED. Meg Jay, a psychologist and author, argued against the idea that the 20s are a period of extended adolescence where people can postpone key life choices. By the time people reach 30, they may have missed out on some key chances to take their life in the directions they hope to pursue. "Thirty is not the new twenty," she said, urging people to "claim your adulthood" and start making choices. Spoken word poet Shane Koyczan, a 36-year-old whose new video "To This Day" has attracted 5.5 million views, offered a reminder that for all that young people can achieve, many still carry a heavy burden. He told of being bullied as a child to the point that, without realizing it, he turned into a bully himself. He spoke of kids being called names, making them feel like "oddities juggling depression and loneliness" and challenged them: . "if you can't see anything beautiful about yourself . get a better mirror . look a little closer . stare a little longer . because there's something inside you . that made you keep trying . despite everyone who told you to quit" | eng_Latn | 1,967 |
CDC recommends all pregnant women get flu shots .
Doesn't matter what trimester of pregnancy, flu shot is safe .
Woman's husband said she was scheduled to get a flu shot . | (CNN) -- An Arkansas woman, who lost her baby last month after coming down with the H1N1 flu virus, has now lost her life. Leslie Creekmore, 29, had been hospitalized for the last month. She was put on a ventilator January 13, before being rushed to a St. Louis hospital a day later. Creekmore spontaneously miscarried on January 16. She was 20 weeks pregnant. "She's gone now, and the universe itself is lesser for the loss," her husband Chris Creekmore said in a post to the Facebook group "Love for Leslie." "I loved her with every iota of my being and beyond, and I have no intention of that changing just because she isn't here with me corporeally." On the advice of their doctor, the couple said they postponed getting a flu shot until after Creekmore's first trimester. The couple did not know that his guidance was counter to federal health recommendations. Creekmore had planned to get a flu shot at a clinic on January 13 -- the same day she was put on a ventilator. CDC recommendation . Any pregnant woman should get a flu shot to protect against serious complications as soon as the yearly vaccine becomes available in her area, advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website flu.gov. Women can receive the flu shot at any point during their pregnancies, regardless of trimester, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists supports the CDC recommendation that all women get vaccinated if they will be pregnant during the influenza season: "Vaccination early in the season and regardless of gestational age is optimal," ACOG says. No harm has been demonstrated to pregnant women or their babies as a result of the vaccine, the CDC said. The flu vaccine protects against many strains during the season from October to March. Pregnant women who receive the vaccine may still get the flu, but it would likely be a milder illness than otherwise, and severe consequences would be improbable, Gray-Swain said. A national effort to prevent the 2009 H1N1 pandemic flu has contributed to a dramatic increase in the number of pregnant women who receive flu vaccines, according to the CDC. Less than 15% of pregnant women received a flu shot before 2009; in the next two seasons, more than half of pregnant women got the vaccine protection. The risks of not getting a flu shot . The flu may increase the risk of miscarriage, premature birth and low birth weight, the CDC said. "Pregnancy puts extra stress on your heart and lungs. Pregnancy can also affect your immune system. These factors increase the risk of becoming severely ill due to the flu," according to the CDC website. Life-threatening developments like Creekmore's in flu patients are generally rare but not unheard of, Gray-Swain said. "Pregnant women are five times more likely to end up in the ICU or have severe complications related to the flu than non-pregnant women who get infected with the flu," she said. The flu vaccine that is safe for pregnant woman is in injectable form, and it does not contain the live virus, Gray-Swain said. The nasal spray versions should not be given to pregnant women. If you are pregnant, inform the health care staff administering the vaccine before you receive it. Washing your hands after using the bathroom, touching public surfaces and other activities is also important, she said. Pregnant women can also take a drug called Tamiflu. It is most commonly taken to reduce the length of symptoms, but it is also given to people with high-risk flu exposure as a prevention. | (CNN) -- Clemson University suspended a mandatory online course that asked students and faculty about their sex lives and drinking habits following backlash from the school community. The South Carolina public university started using the third-party online course this semester as part of required "Title IX training" on sexual violence prevention. Questions such as: "How many times have you had sex?" and "With how many different people have you had sex?" raised privacy concerns among students. Clemson junior Machaella Reisman said she appreciates the school's efforts to educate the community on sexual violence prevention, especially in light of recent headlines related to domestic violence in the NFL. But, schools should be able to educate students without asking how many times they've had sex in the past three months, or if drugs or alcohol were involved, Reisman said. "This is not information that I discuss with my friends, let alone information I feel the need to disclose to the school or whoever the third-party source may be," Reisman, 20, told CNN in an email. "As a questionnaire that is supposed to serve the purpose of educating students on gender equality to prevent sexual violence, why should there be questions regarding how much sex a student has had and if they used drugs, alcohol, or a condom?" The controversy comes as schools across the country are experimenting with new approaches to sexual harassment prevention and education to comply with federal law. Sexual violence prevention in higher education has been a concern for schools across the country amid widespread allegations that schools mishandled sexual misconduct incidents in violation of federal law. Mandatory sexual violence education programming is common in schools nationwide. The University of California-Berkeley said this week that at least 500 freshmen could face holds on spring registration if they do not complete mandatory sexual harassment training this semester. The White House launched a task force earlier this year dedicated to the issue, and unveiled a new public awareness and education campaign on Friday called "It's On Us." The program, which President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden announced Friday, aims to engage students and colleges to take active roles in preventing sexual assault on campus. Clemson's Title IX training module was stirring debate on campus as more people started taking it, Reisman said. A Campus Reform article on the program brought the conversation to the national level, prompting Clemson to suspend the program Wednesday pending further "review and revision." "We felt it was important to take those concerns seriously," Shannon Finning, dean of students and associate vice president for Student Affairs, told CNN. "We are very committed to not only meeting federal requirements, but also assuring that we will provide critically important training and education to all members of our community." Reisman also questioned the extent to which her responses would be treated anonymously considering she used her name and student ID number to register for the online course. But Finning said the responses were "captured anonymously" and would not be identifiable by the school or CampusClarity, the vendor that created the module. "At the conclusion, we would gather it in aggregate and it would give us a better picture of campus culture and give us an opportunity to identify additional educational and training needs." The questions were included among other slides related to campus resources and exercises in how to deal with potential scenarios, Finning said. On the whole, the course was intended to address requirements under Title IX to make students aware of resources for dealing with sexual violence and how to report sexual misconduct, she said. Schools that receive federal funding are required under the Violence Against Women Act to provide sexual violence education to new and returning students and employees. Guidance under Title IX issued by the Office for Civil Rights in 2001 and 2014 also makes clear that schools should be providing educational programs on sexual violence to their student body, said Nancy Chi Cantalupo with the professional group Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Surveys are not required by Title IX and VAWA, and schools do not have to purchase surveys or educational programs from third parties, Cantalupo said. There are several models schools can adapt, including White House guidelines. "By designing their own survey, schools can insure that the survey questions are non-invasive" Cantalupo said. | eng_Latn | 1,968 |
Dutch study found half of older swingers admitted taking illegal substances .
Half had six or more partners in past six months but not used condoms .
13 per cent of patients - with an average age of 45 - had chlamydia or gonorrhoea - similar to the rates among gay men and young people .
Swingers 'should be given same health advice as other at-risk groups' | Swingers on the hunt for excitement are spreading sexually transmitted infections by taking part in drug-fuelled orgies, new research claims. A Dutch study found almost half of older swingers admitted taking illegal substances to boost their prowess in the bedroom and keep multiple partners satisfied. As well as erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra, they are also using cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), GHB, laughing gas, cannabis, poppers, speed, LSD and lysergic acid to help them perform - at levels similar to gay men. Scroll down for video . Researchers found 13 per cent of swingers - with an average age of 45 - had chlamydia or gonorrhoea . However, their unsafe sexual practices are putting them at increasing risk of chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, HIV and hepatitis B, experts warn. The researchers, writing in the journal Sexually Transmitted Infections, say swingers should be targeted with the same health advice as other at-risk groups. These people are known to engage in high risk sexual behaviour such as having multiple sexual partners, group sex, and unprotected sex, but there is little data on their use of drugs and what impact that has. Over-45s have previously been found to wrongly believe they had a low risk of catching a sexually transmitted infection (STI). But there is little data on swingers who have recently been classified as an emerging high risk group for STIs. The researchers therefore set out to assess the prevalence of drug use among swingers and its link with high-risk sexual behaviour and STIs. In the first study of its kind, they studied 289 men and women with an average age 49. These people said they were swingers and had visited a STI clinic from 2009 to 2012 in South Limburg, The Netherlands. For the study, they filled out a questionnaire on their sexual and drug use behaviour while swinging, over the preceding six months. The researchers then looked for a link between sexual behaviour, drug use and STI diagnoses including chlamydia, gonorrhoea, syphilis, HIV and hepatitis B. More than three quarters of swingers reported recreational drug use - including alcohol, Viagra (pictured) and illegal drugs . They found 13 per cent of patients - with an average age of 45 - had chlamydia or gonorrhoea - similar to the rates among gay men and young people. Dr Laura Spauwen, of South Limburg Public Health Service in Geleen, The Netherlands, said: 'High-risk sexual behaviours are common among swingers. 'By definition, swingers are also involved in concurrent sex as they have overlapping partnerships over a fixed period of time.' More than three quarters of swingers reported recreational drug use - including alcohol and use of Viagra. Drugs were also frequently used in combination - especially the combination of GHB and MDMA. In men, a combination of MDMA and erectile dysfunction drugs was frequently seen in men. 'Since swingers are involved in lengthy sexual acts with multiple partners, male swingers use erectile dysfunction drugs to maintain while using other drugs,' explained Dr Spauwen. She noted eight per cent of the women reported recreational use of Viagra, for which the effects are unknown. The results also showed that a quarter of the male participants had been with male swing partners in the last six months. And more than half of those surveyed - both men and women - had group sex in the same period, with half of them not using condoms. Half reported having six or more sex partners over the preceding six months - and had not used a condom during vaginal sex. There was no differences in sexually risky behaviour between men and women . Dr Spauwen added: 'Swingers - at least those attending our clinic - are a generally older group. 'The prevalence of drug use observed among swingers in this study is very high and comparable with what is observed in men who have sex with men.' Half of swingers interviewed reported having six or more sexual partners over the preceding six months - and had not used a condom during sex . | (CNN) -- It's Valentine's Day, and the Olympic village is in the mood -- at least that's the story according to one champion athlete at this month's Games. Slopestyle gold medalist Jamie Anderson revealed she had to delete her account with online dating app Tinder before her snowboard event in order to focus on the Olympics. "Tinder in the Olympic Village is next level," the 23-year-old from South Lake Tahoe, California said in an interview with the magazine U.S. Weekly published Wednesday. "It's all athletes! In the mountain village it's all athletes. It's hilarious. There are some cuties on there. "There was a point where I had to be like OK, this is way too distracting. I deleted my account to focus on the Olympics." Tinder is a matchmaking app for smartphones that facilitates communication between nearby users, prompting them to decide whether they like each other on the basis of a photograph and a brief profile. If two users select "like" for one another, the match is made known to both individuals and they can begin messaging. With most athletes owning smartphones and being active on social media, it was perhaps inevitable that the increasingly popular Tinder would play Cupid at the Olympics. In fact, the company has experienced a 400% day-over-day increase of new users in Sochi since the Games began last Friday, Tinder CEO and founder Sean Rad told the Wall Street Journal. With almost 3,000 competitors staying in the Olympic Village alone, and that doesn't include support staff, officials, media and fans who are all staying nearby. This diverse mix of people from all corners of the globe, for what is essentially one big party over a three-week period, is perhaps why organizers have seen fit to supply roughly 100,000 condoms to the Olympic village. "I haven't seen it in action but I've definitely heard the athletes' village is a melting pot of good-looking people at the top of their sport," U.S. snowboarder Alex Diebold told reporters. "They do provide free condoms, which I think is a really smart move on their part. I think you can get them at the medical office. We're good-looking people all hanging out together and stuff like that is bound to happen," he added. Fellow American Jacqueline Hernandez said while she had been staying offline in the run-up to her snowboard cross event on Sunday, that was unlikely to remain the case for long. "I haven't gotten on Tinder since I got here. I think after our event when we move up to the mountain (athletes' village) I will definitely try to Tinder it up," the 21-year-old said. But while some athletes have taken to modern technology in the search for that someone special in Sochi, others have kept it old-school. The traditional definition of Valentine's Day, after all, is for couples and singles to express their love -- openly or anonymously -- through cards, candy, flowers and gifts. "If you have a girlfriend, you should tell her you love her every day," said Austrian snowboarder Hanno Douschan. "Maybe when I get back to the athletes' village I will find a chocolate heart from the cleaning lady." U.S. figure skater Ashley Wagner went one step further and tweeted a Valentine's card to herself, making light of her underwhelmed reaction to the judges' scorecards after she performed in the team event last weekend -- an image that went viral. Others are so focused on the competition, however, that Valentine's Day and the Tinder factor have barely registered. Australia's Tora Bright, who followed her 2010 halfpipe gold with silver in Sochi, had to be reminded it was February 14. "Oh, it's Valentine's day today?" the snowboarder asked. "Every day is Valentine's day. I give my love to all my loved ones every day. "Well I don't have a Valentine, so I'm just going to forget about it." Swiss snowboarder Simona Meiler, meanwhile, was none too enamored with the focus on anything other than the sport. "My plans for Valentine's Day is to go to the press conference, rest and get ready for tomorrow," the 24-year-old said. "It's a day of preparation like any other. I've got other things on my mind, it's not my focus." | eng_Latn | 1,969 |
Edmonton Catholic trustee calls for updated safe sex education for students | An Edmonton Catholic Schools trustee wants to see the provincial sex education curriculum revamped to teach students about safe sex.
Marilyn Bergstra is bringing a motion to Tuesday's board meeting to support a review of the provincial curriculum to focus on consent and contraception, as well as programming tailored to Indigenous students, LGBTQ students and students with mental and physical disabilities.
"I'm not trying to promote promiscuity, but I am saying there is an outbreak of disease in relation to sexually transmitted infections in this city and across this province," Bergstra said.
"Should kids find themselves in a situation where they're going to choose to be sexually active, what are the best practices to ensure that they reduce their risk?"
The most recently released statistics from Alberta Health point to a dramatic increase in at least two sexually transmitted infections: gonorrhea, of which there were 80 per cent more cases in 2015 than in 2014, and syphilis, of which there were 50 per cent more cases during that same time period.
Focus on health
Bergstra, currently completing her master's degree in public health, recognizes her motion could be contentious among her colleagues.
"I want the conversation to be: 'Yes, kids are at risk. Yes, there's an outbreak of infectious disease in this city. How do we promote the emotional health tied to sex? How do we provide the physical health related to sex? How do we ensure kids are ready?'" she said.
'Should kids find themselves in a situation where they're going to choose to be sexually active, what are the best practices to ensure that they reduce their risk?' - Marilyn Bergstra
As a Catholic trustee, Bergstra said she tries to balance faith with other important aspects of students' education, including academics and health and well-being. She said the gaps she sees in the sex-ed curriculum relate to scientific evidence, not religion.
Last month, a Catholic high school in Red Deer brought a pro-life group into a Grade 10 religion class. The presenter screened a controversial video that compared abortion to the Holocaust.
Bergstra said she doesn't condone the comparison, but respects the right to have religious programming in religious classrooms in religious schools.
However, she reiterated that's not what her motion is trying to change.
"We're talking right now about sex education that will be delivered as part of the health curriculum, and that is a fact-based curriculum. That is a science-based curriculum," she said. "To me, there is no: 'What should it be?'"
Informed teaching
Bergstra said she thinks there needs to be discussions that include the Alberta Teachers' Federation around who should deliver sex education in schools.
She said there are inconsistencies between jurisdictions, schools and even classrooms when it comes to teaching sex education.
"Whoever delivers the curriculum, they must be comfortable delivering the curriculum and they must be well-versed and have a comprehensive understanding themselves," she said.
'Whoever delivers the curriculum, they must be comfortable delivering the curriculum and they must be well-versed and have a comprehensive understanding themselves.' - Marilyn Bergstra
For example, Bergstra said she researched the efficacy of promoting abstinence as the sole option for birth control.
"I could find no peer-reviewed data to suggest that the message of abstinence only works. In fact, the data would suggest the opposite," she said.
"I think we need to arm kids with facts, hope that they make decisions that are in their own best interests, but allow them to do so with knowledge, as opposed to a lack of knowledge."
The changes Bergstra is seeking would affect the curriculum at all schools in Alberta. | HYDERABAD: Hyderabad Schools Parents Association will observe a Parents Solidarity Day on Saturday at People’s Plaza, Necklace road. The protest is part of a country-wide movement that will be conducted simultaneously across 19 other cities across India to put across the message to both the Centre and the different state governments that the problem of fee loot is not limited to a particular city.
“Parents, along with some NGOs, will hold silent marches and form human chains under the banner of Mission Education Federation and demand the enactment of Central Act for Fee Regulation and Quality Education. Hyderabad Schools Parents’Association stand in solidarity with this event and is organising the Parents Solidarity Day,” said N Subhramanyam, president, HSPA.
In a meeting which was held on 28 December 2017, in Delhi, several parents associations and NGOs from across the country collaborated and formed Mission Education Federation in a bid to show unity of parents. “In addition to the protest march, we will also send a representation to the minister for HRD,” said Seema Agarwal, a member.
Besides the demand for a single and strong central fee and education quality regulation Act, the parents bodies have also demanded implementation of a rationalised RTE Act applicable to all schools including minority, from nursery to 12. On Thursday a class IX student committed suicide after she was not allowed to write exam due to pending examination fee. In this light, HSPA has once again reiterated that fee should be fixed with school management in consultation with PTAs at least six months prior to next academic and should be applicable for three academic years. | eng_Latn | 1,970 |
British people sleep for seven hours 21 minutes per night - and the Germans sleep for eight minutes less .
Typical work start time is 8.50am in Britain - compared with 8.20am in Germany . | By . Rob Cooper . PUBLISHED: . 02:52 EST, 12 June 2012 . | . UPDATED: . 08:50 EST, 13 June 2012 . Many a British holidaymaker has rubbed the sleep from their eyes to gaze in bewilderment at the rows of sunloungers requisitioned long before breakfast. Now research may have solved the mystery of how German tourists always get their towels there first. According to a major study of sleeping habits, they spend less time asleep – and get out of bed more quickly when the alarm goes. Scroll down for hilarious Carling Black Label video . The Carling Black Label advert shows a British holidaymaker expertly throwing his towel onto the sun lounger, beating the German tourists to reserving the first sunbed . While Britons sleep for an average of . seven hours and 21 minutes each night, our counterparts in Germany get . by with eight minutes fewer. And while we take advantage of the snooze . button to get an average of 20 more minutes in bed, they are up and . about after just 15. Professor Russell Foster, a . neuroscientist at Oxford University, looked at the sleeping habits of . more than 10,000 participants from both countries. He said his findings may be down to the fact that Germans begin to work earlier. They usually get to the office at 8.20am, while we are typically at our desks by 8.50am. Towels down: Germans have a natural advantage getting to the sunloungers first because they sleep less, a study has found . But while our later starts might cost us a comfortable poolside lounger, there is good news too. Our sleeping habits are more in tune . with our natural body clock, according to Professor Till Roenneberg, . head of the Munich Centre for Chronobiology, who contributed to the . study. He said that we have lower levels of . ‘social jetlag’ – the difference between our actual sleeping habits and . our natural sleep cycle – because our habits ‘better suit our sleep . needs’. Professor Foster said: ‘The fact Britons are sleeping more and . have less social jetlag would promote more creativity. In terms of . quality wake time at work, this is good news.’ Germans abroad: But thsi time it's football fans celebrating the Euro 2012 championships - at which towels are needed only to dry off the excess beer . And without casting aspersions on the . ability of the Germans to enjoy a joke, sleeping longer may also account . for the famous British sense of humour. Professor Foster said: ‘Sleeping . longer is known to help us with memory but also language skills and . creativity. That includes our sense of humour – our ability to look at . the world and laugh is very much influenced by sleep.’ | A leading public health expert's proposal to lower the age of consent to 15 has been swiftly rejected by the Prime Minister. Professor John Ashton, president of the Faculty of Public Health, said society had to accept 'the facts' that around a third of boys and girls have sex at 14 or 15. He argued that lowering the current legal age of 16 would make it easier for 15-year-olds to get sexual health advice from teachers and health workers. Prime Minister David Cameron swiftly rejected a leading public health expert's proposal to lower the age of consent to 15 . Professor John Ashton says the Government should consider lowering the age of sexual consent to 15 . Countries in Europe that have lower . ages of consent tend to see teenagers starting sexual relationships . later and have lower rates of teenage pregnancy, he claimed. But Downing Street shot down the . idea, saying the age at 16 was in place to protect children and there . were 'no plans to change it'. Prof Ashton said lowering it by a year could actually prevent teenagers having sex at 14 or younger. He said: 'I would not personally . argue for 14 but I think we should seriously be looking at 15 so that we . can draw a line in the sand, and really, as a society, actively . discourage sexual involvement under 15. 'By doing that you would be able legitimately to organise services to meet the need.' He added: 'I suspect we might be . better off with it at 15 because the teachers and people who are in . contact with young people would feel on a firmer footing pointing them . in the right direction where they can get advice and contraception to . protect their physical health from disease and other problems.' The president of the Faculty of Public Health says society sends 'confused' signals about when sex is permitted . The Faculty of Public Health, which . represents doctors working in this field, is independent of government . but advises ministers and civil servants. The age of consent is 14 in Germany, . Austria, Hungary, Italy and Portugal. It is 15 in Denmark, France, . Greece, Sweden and Poland, and 16 in Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, . Luxembourg and Finland. In Spain it is 13 but is being raised to 16. Nick Clegg said he was worried about . 'high levels of teenage pregnancy' but thought 'modernising' sex . education in schools rather than lowering the age of consent was the . answer. Labour spokesman Luciana Berger agreed that changing the age of consent was not the way to tackle teenage pregnancy. 'I'm . worried, like everybody's worried, about the sexualisation of the . culture and the information that so many young people are bombarded with . at the moment. That's why I do want see action,' he told BBC1's The . Andrew Marr Show. 'I'm . constantly urging (Education Secretary) Michael Gove and the Department . for Education to update and modernise sex education in schools which . hasn't kept up with the internet age. 'But do I think simply a blanket reduction in the age of consent is the answer to this difficult dilemma? No.' Nick Clegg said he does not think lowering the age of consent was the solution to the problem . Shadow public health minister Luciana Berger said Labour opposed lowering the age of consent and called for mandatory sex and relationship education. Ms Berger said the opposition had tried to get such changes enshrined in law but Tory MPs blocked the moves in Parliament. She said: 'Lowering the age of consent is not the way to tackle teenage pregnancy and we are against such a move. Shadow public health minister Luciana Berger called for mandatory sex and relationship education . 'The teenage pregnancy rate fell substantially under the last Labour government. But sexual health clinics are now closing their doors and young people are struggling to get appointments. 'Labour has called for improved sex and relationship education, and tabled amendments to recent legislation for it to be made mandatory, not voluntary, in all schools. 'Regrettably, the change was voted down by Tory MPs.' In 1875 the Offences Against the Persons Act raised the age of sexual consent from 12 to 13 in Great Britain and Ireland. Ten years later, the Criminal Law Amendment Act raised it again, to 16. According to organisations such as the International Child and Youth Care Network, an age of consent of 16 criminalises more than half the teenage population and makes it hard to give them proper advice and support to prevent diseases, unwanted pregnancies and abuse. The Faculty of Public Health, part of the . Royal Colleges of Physicians, gives advice to ministers and civil . servants although it is independent of government. | eng_Latn | 1,971 |
Club Kiss opened in a quiet Southampton neighbourhood without planning permission .
1,000 locals signed petition opposing the site and council was deluged with letters of complaint .
Venue hosts swingers and features a 'dungeon' for those with an 'alternative lifestyle' | A new sex club which sparked outrage after opening in a quiet city suburb without planning permission has been ordered to close by council chiefs. The 'kinky hotel', called Club Kiss, is situated in a neighbourhood where many residents are pensioners or young families. It caused outrage when it opened in a former NHS rehabilitation centre in Southampton, Hampshire. Anger: The 'kinky hotel', called Club Kiss, caused anger when it opened in a quiet residential neighbourhood. Pictured is owner Martin Millar . The property has been reinvented by owner Martin Millar, who has installed two 'superbly equipped dungeons' and a 'kinky room'. The building, named Milton House, also features five themed 'playrooms', a 'UV room' and a 'mirror room'. But a planning committee at Southampton City Council today unanimously refused an application for retrospective planning permission. They had received a 1,000 name petition and 150 letters of objections from neighbouring residents. A planning application report said the change of use had the potential to 'cause harm to the residential amenities and character of the area.' It recommended the hotel's operations 'should cease as soon as possible'. Despite the ruling, ward councillor Warwick Payne admitted it could be months before the hotel is shut down as Mr Millar said he plans to appeal. Councillor Payne, who is also the city's leisure boss, said: 'This is a vital decision and signifies residents have won the battle and gone a long way towards winning the war. 'If the application is taken to the planning inspectorate this could rumble on for weeks if not months. Unassuming: Club his boasts a dungeon, five themed 'playrooms', a 'UV room' and a 'mirror room'. 'But I would urge Mr Millar to find an alternative use for Milton House that residents are happy with, rather than going down that route.' The venue hosted an opening event in September, called 'Couples and Singles Grand Opening Party'. Running from 9pm until 2am, the party offered guests 'the perfect night for meeting other couples and single males/females'. The new hotel has replaced the former JCT2 swingers club, which operated 20 minutes away in Calmore, Southampton. That was ordered to close after planning inspectors agreed it was being run illegally as a business from a residential property. And now Southampton City Council has vowed to 'fight tooth and nail' to make sure Club Kiss is also closed. But, the new venue's website is already boasting a stacked programme of events throughout November and December. 'We are simply opening a hotel which is also open to those who enjoy an alternative lifestyle.' Club Kiss owner Martin Millar . Mr Millar, 37, said: 'I understand some local residents are unhappy about the arrival of my venue in the area and they are fully entitled to their opinions. 'We are simply opening a hotel which is also open to those who enjoy an alternative lifestyle. 'The events we will be holding do not attract large numbers of people, so will not cause any traffic or parking problems. 'The average age of those attending will be 40-plus - it is not going to be youngsters who may get drunk and be too noisy. 'I will stress to all our guests that at all times they should respect the privacy of our neighbours, especially when leaving the venue.' He added: 'Naturally I am disappointed with the result of the hearing but it did not come as a big surprise to me. 'I fully intend to appeal against the decision.' | By . Liv Stevens . Memories: Liv Stevens was a sixth former at Stowe School from 2006-2008 . The motto at Stowe School, ‘persto et praesto – I persist and I excel’, was a source of inspiration for pupils when I attended. Especially when it came to having sex. Teachers knew it was happening, but there wasn’t much they could do about it. Confined to the school grounds for weeks at a time with hormones raging, pupils were regularly having sex. There was a game known as the Temple Challenge, where couples would compete to have sex at all of the 40 tiny neo-classical buildings in the school’s 750 acres. In one girls’ boarding house, a tally chart of locations where pupils had sex was updated regularly. Pupils had sex anywhere they could: in unlocked classrooms in the evenings, in the cricket pavilion, even outside boarding houses. I never heard of anyone getting caught, but there were a few close calls. Once a girl was forced to sneak out of a boy’s bedroom window when the housemaster came knocking. These rendezvous weren’t one-night stands, but part of loving relationships – and never underage as the school only accepts girls from 16. Two old school friends are still going out with the boyfriends they met aged 16. All the girls knew that the school’s medical centre, the San, stocked the morning-after pill. On at least one occasion I accompanied a friend to get one. The school should be both open and realistic about sex and accept that it’s better to prepare, and offer pupils contraception if they need it. Former school: Liv Stevens says that Stowe (pictured) should be both open and realistic about sex and accept that its better to offer pupils contraception if they need it . | eng_Latn | 1,972 |
Does Bidirectional Traffic Do More Harm Than Good in LoRaWAN Based LPWA Networks? | Understanding the Limits of LoRaWAN | Central precocious puberty: revisiting the diagnosis and therapeutic management | eng_Latn | 1,973 |
The Target: Kids 12-14 | By David Gambacorta, Philadelphia Daily News Jun. 13--Research has taught the Child Predator Unit this much: One in five girls and one in five boys will be sexually propositioned online during their early adolescence. | Faced with a protracted sales slump, record labels are now tapping into the tween scene, after Walt Disney Co. has become the unlikely hitmaker of the year with chart toppers like "Hannah Montana" and "High School Musical." | eng_Latn | 1,974 |
Cops: Teen gang made girls prostitutes | Several teenage gang members have been arrested on suspicion of forcing girls as young as 12 into a prostitution ring, police said Tuesday. | A trailblazing Chicago school starts economic education early to give inner-city black kids a leg up | eng_Latn | 1,975 |
Teens 'fake drug-use to fit in' | One-fifth of teenagers say their friends fake drug use as a result of peer pressure, a report shows. | Plus: File sharing growing like a Weed. [News.com Extra] | eng_Latn | 1,976 |
Scuba diving offers a chance to explore and photograph underwater caverns , wrecks , coral , sponges , and other marine life . | Scuba diving lets people explore and photograph underwater caverns , wrecks , coral , sponges , and other marine life . | Child pornography is looked at and collected by pedophiles for a number of purposes , ranging from private sexual uses , exchanging with other pedophiles , preparing children for sexual abuse as part of the process known as `` grooming '' , or for bribing victims into making more child pornography or going into child prostitution . | eng_Latn | 1,977 |
Timelines are often used in education to help students and researchers with understanding the order or chronology of historical events and trends for a subject . | Timelines are often used in education . They help students and researchers understand the order or chronology of historical events for a subject . | Child pornography is looked at and collected by pedophiles for a number of purposes , ranging from private sexual uses , exchanging with other pedophiles , preparing children for sexual abuse as part of the process known as `` grooming '' , or for bribing victims into making more child pornography or going into child prostitution . | eng_Latn | 1,978 |
I'm wondering about sexual content because I have younger kids in the house. | Yes to that -- all 3 Bioshocks are stamped with "Mature 17+" due to: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Sexual Themes, Drug Reference (Alcohol and Tobacco) | We just purchased ours last year and love it! Ours is left outside (we bring the cushions in at night) and it has weathered quite well. We did store it for winter. The only problem is that the yellow is pale and shows dirt. Spray a stain guard on it. We love this set!! | eng_Latn | 1,979 |
Opinium survey found sexting 'part of everyday life' for many teenagers .
70% of 18-year-old's questioned said watching porn was seen as normal .
Young women in particular fear porn can lead to 'unrealistic attitudes'
Two-thirds said porn puts pressure on young women to act a certain way .
Just 22% said parents were their main source of information about sex . | By . Jason Groves - Deputy Political Editor, Daily Mail . Easy access to online pornography is wrecking adolescence for many young people, according to a new Opinium survey out today (file photo) Easy access to online pornography is wrecking adolescence for many young people, a new survey of teenagers warns today. The Opinium survey of 18-year-olds paints a bleak picture of teenage life where young girls and boys feel under intense pressure to conform to pornographic norms. An astonishing 80 per cent said it was too easy to stumble across explicit images and videos on the internet. Almost half (46 per cent) said the phenomenon of ‘sexting’, where people send explicit pictures of themselves to others, was ‘part of everyday life for teenagers nowadays’. And a majority said pornography was making life harder for adolescents. Two-thirds of girls and almost half of boys said it would be ‘easier growing up if pornography was less easy to access for young people’. Seventy per cent said watching porn was seen as normal among their classmates at school. One in 10 said it had become common among their peers by the age of 11. More than half (55 per cent) said they had stumbled across images that made them ‘worried or uncomfortable’ while surfing the internet. Just one in 10 told their parents about the episodes. The survey, commissioned by the centre-left Institute for Public Policy Research think tank, found that two-thirds of those surveys believe porn is addictive. The findings add weight to the Daily Mail’s campaign to block online porn. Dalia Ben-Galim, associate director at the IPPR, said: ‘This new polling data shows that pornographic images are pervasive in teenagers' lives and that young women in particular are acutely conscious of how damaging they can be. ‘It paints a worrying picture about the way online pornography is shaping the attitudes and behaviour of young people. It is also clear that young people believe the sex education they currently get in school hasn't kept pace with the realities of their digital and social media lifestyles.’ Almost half (46 per cent) of those quizzed said the phenomenon of 'sexting', where people send explicit pictures of themselves to others, was ‘part of everyday life for teenagers nowadays’ Some 72 per cent of 18-year-olds worry that the prevalence of porn leads to ‘unrealistic attitudes’ to sex, while two-thirds said porn has led to pressure on young women to act a certain way and 68 per cent said it has put pressure on girls to look at certain way. Slightly fewer said pornography had put pressure on young men to act and look a particular way (61 per cent and 56 per cent respectively). Seven in 10 of those surveyed said pornography encourages society to view women as sex objects. But the survey also revealed some gender differences in attitudes towards online porn. Almost half of boys (45 per cent) said porn helped young people ‘learn about sex’, compared to just 30 per cent of girls. Two-thirds of the 18-year-olds surveyed said porn has led to pressure on young women to act a certain way and 68 per cent said it has put pressure on girls to look at certain way . Some 40 per cent of girls strongly agree that porn ‘leads to unrealistic attitudes to sex’ compared to just 21 per cent of boys. The survey also found that two-thirds of youngsters think that people are too casual about sex and relationships. The vast majority of those questioned (86 per cent) said that sex and relationship advice should be taught in schools. Some 16 per cent said their main source of information about sex and relationships was pornographic websites, with another 26 per cent identifying the internet as a major source. Just 22 per cent identified their parents as a major source of information. Around two-thirds want sex and relationships education to be taught by a trained expert, 40 per cent think lessons should be given by an external visitor and just a fifth say it should be taught by a teacher at the school. | By . Laura Cox . PUBLISHED: . 19:58 EST, 19 November 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:03 EST, 20 November 2013 . Ruby Tandoh has admitted she thinks The Great British Bake Off is 'crap TV' and that women who watch it are 'silly' It is the popular TV show that turned her into a household name and saw her go from philosophy student to baking star in a matter of weeks. But Ruby Tandoh has admitted she thinks The Great British Bake Off is ‘crap TV’ and that women who watch it are ‘silly’. It is a surprising revelation for the baker, 21, who won an army of fans while Bake Off was on screens. And for a long time she was the odds-on favourite to win before being unexpectedly beaten by Frances Quinn in the final. Then of course there was Miss Tandoh’s evident passion for the programme, which saw her break down in tears almost every episode out of apparent frustration at her under baked cakes or soggy bottoms. All of that, however, seemed to go out of the window on Monday night as Miss Tandoh joined a panel of women to debate whether feminism needs a rebranding. And she launched a startlingly scathing attack on the programme. She said: ‘Collectively we’re [women in general] all a bit silly. I cried over the John Lewis Christmas advert, we like get so excited when the Starbucks red cups come out. We watch crap on TV like Bake Off. We like things we can latch onto and understand quite clearly.’ She added: ‘This isn’t about dumbing down feminism or making it more girly or softer or diluting any of these messages. And I don’t want you to compromise any of those goals. But I just think we need to change our meanings, make it more inclusive, make it less epidemic.’ It comes after Miss Tandoh surprised fans of the popular programme, which recently announced its move from BBC2 to BBC 1, by branding herself a feminist as she hit back at accusations she had flirted with co-host, baker Paul Hollywood, and sobbed her way into the final. And as she spoke at the east London debate, which was chaired by Elle Magazine editor-in-chief Lorraine Candy, she addressed the ‘unfortunate’ stereotype that prevails about feminists as ‘angry hairy women’. She said: ‘A lot of people were surprised I identified myself as a feminist. Even though within academic feminism and journalism context, we assume feminism is the right way to go, I think we take for granted everyone feels that way. Miss Tandoh surprised fans of the popular programme by branding herself a feminist . 'Everyone doesn’t think that way. People still think that feminists are angry hairy women. That is a stereotype that prevails, unfortunately.’ As the final of Bake Off loomed earlier this year, fans appeared to turn on Miss Tandoh and accused her of ‘flirting’ with baking judge Paul Hollywood – something both Hollywood and Miss Tandoh have both fiercely denied. Viewers were also damningly critical of her tendency to burst into tears episode after episode. And true to form, as Miss Quinn was crowned Bake Off winner, Miss Tandoh had a little sob and was later seen in a pub where she pledged to get ‘absolutely trolleyed’ and drown her sorrows. | eng_Latn | 1,980 |
Jayne Triffitt said pupils asking for a healthy diet may have eating disorders .
Head of £10,000-a-term boarding school said teens feel pressured to be thin .
Added exam pressure and heavy work loads can lead to mental illnesses .
Those with history of depression more likely to develop eating disorder .
Study found teen girls are prone to mental health issues due to hormones . | By . Lizzie Edmonds . Schoolgirls who ask their parents for healthy meals may be showing early signs of an eating disorder, a leading headmistress has warned. Jayne Triffitt, who is head of the Catholic girls boarding school Woldingham in Surrey, was speaking at an end of term assembly about mental health and eating disorders among teens. She said, due to social pressure, young girls feel they must look a certain way - and so may reduce their food intake in a bid to be thin. Warning: Jayne Triffitt, head of Woldingham School in Surrey, has warned that schoolgirls who ask their parents for healthy meals may be showing early signs of an eating disorder . The head of the £10,000-a-term institution warned parents to be wary of their daughters asking to follow a 'healthy diet' - as the request could be a 'euphemism' for eating very little. Mrs Triffit said: 'The biggest pressure is to be thin. 'But, of course, the catch is that if they reduce their food intake they will not have the energy to cope with a packed life here at school. 'All too quickly they could head for some type of eating disorder.' Pressure: Mrs Triffit said exam stress and heavy workloads - particularly in female pupils aged between 14 and 18 - can trigger mental illness, which in turn may lead to an eating disorder (library image) According to The Times, she added: 'Just a hint to parents, do not be caught out by your daughter's wish to eat a 'healthy' diet. This is often a euphemism for eating very little indeed.' Later in her speech, Mrs Triffit said exam stress and heavy workloads - particularly in female pupils aged between 14 and 18 - can trigger mental illness, which in turn may lead to an eating disorder. Mrs Triffit said pupils in this age range are under particular pressure as Universities demand 'ridiculously high grades' from applicants. Worry: The head said young girls feel pressured to look a certain way - so drop their food intake in a bid to be thin . The headmistress said: 'Some will become over-anxious and display particular mental health issues connected with this.' Mrs Triffit's warning comes as research indicates teenage girls could be more prone to depression and anxiety as they experience greater blood flow to the brain. Hormone . oestrogen drives more blood to the heads of young women compared to men . - and that could explain disparities in psychiatric disorders, scientists at the University of Pennsylvania claim. Blood flow is known to be higher in adult women than men, but the study now shows it is markedly different during adolescence when teenagers are going through puberty. According to the NHS Choices website, eating disorders are most commonly blamed on social pressures to be thin. However, those with a family history of depression are also more likely to develop the three main types of eating disorder - anorexia nervosa, bulimia or a binge eating. Eating disorders can affect people of any age - but often develop in teenagers. According to the NHS, around one in 250 women will experience anorexia at some point - with the condition usually developing around the age of 16 or 17. One in . 2,000 men will also experience such disorder. Bulimia is around five times more common . than anorexia, research shows, and 90 per cent of people with bulimia are female. The condition usually develops around the age of 18 or 19. Binge eating usually affects males and females equally and often appears later in life - between the ages of 30 and 40. Research conducted last year by Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) suggested that one in ten individuals admitted to hospital with an eating disorder were female and aged 15. | Mollycoddling teenagers can have a damaging impact on their relationships in adolescence and early adulthood, researchers found. A study showed teenagers whose parents kept tight control over them struggled to form relationships without losing independence and were more likely to bow to peer pressure. The University of Virginia study, in journal Child Development, followed nearly 200 youngsters aged 13 to 21. What are you reading? A study found mollycoddled teens found relationships more difficult (posed by model) It found 13-year-olds whose parents used emotional tactics such as guilt to control them were less able to keep balanced relationships at 18 and 21. The more psychological control teenagers had from their parents, the worse they got throughout their adolescence at establishing autonomy and closeness in their relationships, researchers found. The level of control could also predict the success of their future relationships, as the better their ability to be close to romantic partners yet maintain their own confidence and identity was at 18, the better it was at 21. Lead researcher Barbara Oudekerk said parents who used guilt, withdrawing love or emotional manipulation to control their teenage children were more likely to pressure them to make decisions in line with the parents’ wishes rather than their own. Get off my case! Parents keep a watchful eye on their offspring, and it's seldom appreciated (posed by models) She added: ‘Without opportunities to practice self-directed, independent decision making, teens might give in to their friends’ and partners’ decisions. ‘Parents often fear the harmful consequences of peer pressure in adolescence. Our study suggests that parents can promote or undermine teens’ ability to assert their own views and needs to close friends and romantic partners. ‘In addition, teens who learn - or fail to learn - how to express independence and closeness with friends and partners during adolescence carry these skills forward into adult relationships.' | eng_Latn | 1,981 |
Alaska church leaders learn how to help teens at risk for suicide | CatholicAnchor.org
No one enjoys talking about the suicide epidemic facing young people in the United States today, but that’s exactly what Catholic psychotherapist Roy Petitfils did during a daylong workshop with a group of clergy, youth leaders and parish and archdiocesan staffers last month in Anchorage.
Petitfils began with a litany of social and psychological ills threatening today’s teens, one of the consequences being that suicide is now the second leading cause of death for this population.
“This is why days like this are so important, because we have to talk about it,” he told those gathered at Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral on Jan. 17.
Petitfils was in Alaska as part of a week of public presentations on a wide range of topics for parents, teens and young adults. He focused on helping adults understand, reach and influence teens, and helping teens to understand themselves.
The talk to church leaders, however, dealt with the reality that many young people are suffering and see no way out. Parents, fellow adults, teachers and parish leaders have a critical role in helping youth find their way, he said.
“Young people are experience-rich but language-poor,” he said. “One of the primary roles we have is to help them articulate their experiences and their faith.”
While no single cause puts teens at risk of attempting suicide, there are numerous risk factors.
Petitfils, who practices psychotherapy in Louisiana and has studied ministry and spirituality at the graduate level at the University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, has gleaned his knowledge from years of interacting with teens and ongoing studies of the latest trends.
In a world increasingly saturated with iPhones and electronic devices, Petitfils said this has created a reality that “changes how we address youth today.”
Teens are immersed in a world that parents may not be familiar with — seeking approval, validation and acceptance through social media networks. While Petitfils did not categorically condemn electronic devises, he did point to serious challenges they pose when it comes to interacting with and understanding young people.
Families, partly because of their electronic device and entertainments, do not interact with each other like they once did. “They are together, but alone,” he said, while projecting a slide show image of a modern family gathered in the living room, all staring at their phones.
“This is not the window to the soul,” he said holding up his iPhone and emphasizing that families need to spend time “looking each other in the eyes.”
Bullying and unhealthy relationships have taken on new forms with the saturation of iPhones. Bullying and unhealthy relationships in which a teen possesses the passwords and accounts of their boyfriend or girlfriend are risk factors, he said, adding that more than half of teens with a mobile device have sent a sexually explicit message.
“A lot of girls are pressured to do this,” he said.
But it’s not just electronic devices that create barriers to meaningful human relationships. The breakdown of family ties also contributes to the mental health struggles of teens.
Now 34 percent of young people are raised by single parents, he said, adding that 2.4 million grandparents now raise 4.5 million children. Additionally, blended families are on the rise, which can be a blessing in some situations, but for others it is a risk factor for suicide.
“For a lot of young people they didn’t get a vote in the blending,” he said, and it can be hard. Other risk factors are those who are adopted, foster kids, youth with working moms, and those living in same-sex-union homes.
No one element causes teens to spiral into despair and suicidal thoughts, but they can, and sometimes do, create environments which can lead to depression.
Petitfils noted other factors that put stress on young people. These include the hostile political climate of today and the non-stop media coverage of war, terror and violence, which is readily available at all hours of the day to anyone with a mobile device.
Similarly, realities surrounding jobs and an uncertain future can create anxiety, which can lead to depression, Petitfils observed. Increasingly, teens “have no clear path in the world of work.” They have countless paths before them but are more exposed to unrealistic ideas of success.
Ultimately, he said, teens need four basic pillars to be mentally healthy. They need to be “safe, seen, soothed and secure.”
Petitfils broke this down.
Youth need to feel safe spiritually, physically and socially. They need to know that they are seen and acknowledged by their parents, family and friends.
“A lot of young people today feel invisible and that’s what happens when they get to the point where they want to take their life,” he said.
Teens also need to be “soothed,” meaning they need avenues for dealing with their volatile emotions — both good and bad.
While Petitfils presentation was sobering, he noted that adult leaders can have a positive impact.
“Many kids who are contemplating suicide want to talk about it but they may not know how to initiate it,” he said. One of the tasks of trusted adults is to help them express themselves through language. That means “listening and reflecting back what you heard,” he said. Many people, he said, feel like no one listens or understands them.
Other positive ways of boosting teens’ mental health is to make sure they get exercise, sunlight (or vitamin D), and have downtime to play and be creative — without using electronic devices.
In some cases, adults will need to refer youth to clinical counseling and perhaps medication, he said. When this occurs, it’s important that adults don’t simply pass the youth along, but stay in touch with them, follow up, Petitfils emphasized.
No approach to helping teens is sufficient, however, without addressing their spiritual life, he said. Youth should be encouraged to spend time in prayer and eucharistic adoration, where they can simply sit before their loving God.
As Catholics, he said, youth can greatly benefit from weekly Mass, participating in the ancient and holy liturgies of the church, which are a constant in a world of endless change.
“How we deal with stress without a contemplative prayer life, I don’t know,” Petitfils said. “We need prayer — it gives us hope.” | BOSTON — A Massachusetts governor's race candidate is shutting down a nonprofit organization that he founded that ended up on a list of U.S.-based hate groups.
Republican Scott Lively has described his Abiding Truth Ministries as pro-family, but his opposition to gay rights has landed him and his Springfield-based ministry on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of designated hate groups.
Lively said Wednesday he still believes society should follow the Bible as the guide to sexual morality in public policy. But he says he hopes to enlist "authentically conservative homosexuals" and political liberals in his effort to shift his emphasis "to a conservationist perspective in which the natural family is recognized as the essential eco-system of humanity."
Lively hopes to unseat Gov. Charlie Baker in the GOP primary.
Baker calls Lively's views "outrageous." | eng_Latn | 1,982 |
Does sex education at schools teach students about the dangers of online pornography? | Does sex ed at schools teach students about the dangers of online pornography? | Are computer screens really bad for your eyes? | eng_Latn | 1,983 |
Okay, I'm curious, why do teachers fall in love with students or have sex with them if they are underage or even under age of 15? | Okay, I'm curious, why do teachers fall in love with students or have sex with them if they are underage or even under age of 15? That's sick! | How can a 15 year old start a business? | eng_Latn | 1,984 |
College Aid Hasn't Disappeared — Yet | Some college students worry that the economic meltdown will force them to drop out. They wonder whether they'll be able to get loans and grants. But financial aid advisers say they don't need to be concerned. For now, schools are still getting enough loans and aid to keep students afloat. | We all know casual sex isn't about love. But what if it's not even about lust? Sociologist Lisa Wade believes the pervasive hookup culture on campuses today is different from that faced by previous generations. This week on Hidden Brain, we explore what this culture means for those who choose to participate, and for those who opt out. | eng_Latn | 1,985 |
Depression Strikes Today's Teen Girls Especially Hard | It's tough to be a teenager. Hormones kick in, peer pressures escalate and academic expectations loom large. Kids become more aware of their environment in the teen years — down the block and online. The whole mix of changes can increase stress, anxiety and the risk of depression among all teens, research has long shown. But a recent study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests many more teenage girls in the U.S. may be experiencing major depressive episodes at this age than boys. And the numbers of teens affected took a particularly big jump after 2011, the scientists note, suggesting that the increasing dependence on social media by this age group may be exacerbating the problem. Psychiatrist Ramin Mojtabai and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health wanted to know whether rates of depression among teens had increased over the past decade. They analyzed federal data from interviews with more than 172,000 adolescents. Between 2005 and 2014, the scientists found, rates of depression went up significantly — if extrapolated to all U.S. teens it would work out to about a half million more depressed teens. What's more, three-fourths of those depressed teens in the study were girls. The findings are just the latest in a steady stream of research showing that women of all ages experience higher rates of depression compared to men, says psychologist and author Catherine Steiner-Adair. And no wonder, she says — despite gains in employment, education and salary, women and girls are still "continually bombarded by media messages, dominant culture, humor and even political figures about how they look — no matter how smart, gifted, or passionate they are." Today's constant online connections — via texting, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, — can exacerbate that harsh focus on looks and other judgments from peers, she says. The uptick in teen depression Mojtabai found after 2011 could be evidence of that. Mojtabai says girls, in particular, "are more likely to use these new means of communication, so may be exposed to more cyberbullying or other negative effects of this latest social media." The effects can feel devastating, says Steiner-Adair. "We know girls are very vulnerable to defining themselves in comparison to others," she says. Her young female patients often tell her they get their "entire identity" from their phone, she says, constantly checking the number of "tags, likes, Instagram photos and Snapchat stories." Steiner-Adair urges schools to be proactive in trying to reduce teens' feelings of being "left out" or judged. One tool, she says, might be a course in mindfulness — a form of meditation that has been shown to offer measurable health benefits and can help reduce anxiety and depression. Such training can help teach kids that their brain "on tech" actually needs a rest, Steiner-Adair says. Mindfulness training teaches the value of solitude and can help practitioners calm the urge to constantly check the phone — a useful skill for people of all ages and gender. Meanwhile, Mojtabai says, parents and family doctors, as well as teachers and school counselors, should be on the lookout for any behavioral changes in the teens they live and work with that might be signs of depression. Symptoms can include changes in sleep patterns, appetite or energy, or a growing inability to pay attention and concentrate. Even just one counseling session to evaluate such symptoms, Mojtabai says, can help get teens back on the right track. | Many students face rising costs of birth control treatments on college campuses. <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> columnist Mary Mitchell and Laura Sessions Stepp, author of <em>Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both</em>, talk about birth control and sex on campuses. | eng_Latn | 1,986 |
In Cluster of Teen Pregnancies, 'Juno' Comes to Life | After 17 students in one Massachusetts school turned up pregnant this year, Time magazine called it the "Juno Effect." The term referenced the hit comedy Juno, about a high school girl who's unexpectedly expecting. By depicting the sunny, even redemptive side of Juno's plight, the magazine argued, Hollywood had perhaps made motherhood attractive for teens. It's the kind of conclusion that sometimes draws criticism for being hasty. But Jane Brown, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says the Juno effect is real. Brown runs the Teen Media Project, which recently completed a study into the images seen by girls between the ages of 12 and 14. The research showed that kids who had "heavier sexual media diets" became more than twice as likely to become sexually active by the age of 16. Part of that stems from teens' natural curiousity about sex. Kids who are more interested in it seek information from a variety of sources, Brown says, including movies like Juno. "In the context of parents still not comfortable talking with their children about sex, with schools talking only about abstinence until marriage and with religion saying it's still a sin, the media have become very powerful sex educators," she argues. Brown says teen pregnancy rates had been falling, but she worries that the numbers are again on the rise. She says the generation of girls raised in abstinence-only education programs may not know as much about contraception as kids used to know. Meanwhile, images of unwed mothers have gone mainstream. "This is unusual and rare that we would have movies like Juno or Knocked Up, or that we would now be glamorizing celebrities who are pregnant and we don't even know who the fathers are. ... For [girls], looking to see who's got a baby bump is really compelling somehow," Brown says. On our blog, an open thread: Is Juno to blame? MIKE PESCA, host: All right, 17 high school girls in Gloucester, Massachusetts, are pregnant. Some were said to be happy about this fact, and the principal of the school told Time Magazine that perhaps a pact had been made among the girls. The mayor of Gloucester has since denied there was a pregnancy pact, but the subhead of the Time Magazine story was "The 'Juno' Effect." Since that first big story, coverage of the Gloucester teens has frequently referenced the movie "Juno," the story of a pregnant high-school student. Also, newspapers have talked about "Knocked Up," the story of an unwed pregnant 20-something, played by Katherine Heigl, and press coverage has also mentioned Jamie Lynn Spears, a real-life pregnant teenager. The question is, could it actually be the case that watching a movie, or leafing through the pages of People Magazine, could de-stigmatize teen pregnancy to the extent that it actually becomes acceptable? Jane Brown teaches communications research and theory at UNC Chapel's Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She's a good person to talk, too, so I did. Now you oversee the Teen Media Project. You look at issues of how the media affects teens, how teen absorb the media. I have to tell you, when we were bandying about this premise, that maybe these teenage girls had seen the movie "Juno" and gone out and got pregnant, it seemed almost preposterous to us here at the Bryant Park Project, but what do you know about it? DR. JANE BROWN (Journalism, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): Well, we've just - this Teen Media Project that we've just been involved in, we're working with 12 to 14-year-olds, and we followed them over two years, looking at the kind of media they were using, and then how that was affecting their sexual behavior. And what we found was that the kids who, when they were 12 to 14, had what we called heavier sexual-media diets, they were twice as likely - more than twice as likely to have become sexually active by the time they were 16 years old. PESCA: So, I guess the question is chicken-and-egg. Is it the media images that prompt them to become sexually active? Or is it that teenagers with sex on the mind are going to seek out those images anyway? Dr. BROWN: I actually think it's both going on, that what happens is that as teens get more interested in sexual behavior, and their sexual feelings begin to dominate, then they're looking for sexual information and sexual ideas about what's appropriate and inappropriate. And that's when the media provides lots of very interesting examples. I'd like to put it like this, that in the context of parents still not comfortable talking with their children about sex, with schools talking only about abstinence until marriage, and with religion saying it's still a sin, the media have become powerful sex educators. PESCA: Isn't the trend with teen pregnancy, as the media becomes more sexualized, teen pregnancy, except maybe this last year, has been trending downwards? Dr. BROWN: It has been trending downwards, but I think we are beginning to see that | Many students face rising costs of birth control treatments on college campuses. <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> columnist Mary Mitchell and Laura Sessions Stepp, author of <em>Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both</em>, talk about birth control and sex on campuses. | eng_Latn | 1,987 |
89% of students do not usually use a condom during casual sex .
73% of students undertake most of their sexual encounters after drinking .
60% of those who caught an STI contracted chlamydia, 18% herpes .
The most promiscuous are Drama students - an average of 28 partners .
67% of people who have had an STI would rather risk another one than use a condom . | By . Emma Innes . PUBLISHED: . 05:09 EST, 17 October 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 06:25 EST, 17 October 2013 . It is known as a time to let your hair down while at a safe distance from your parents. But new research suggests many students are risking their health through irresponsible sexual habits. Some 23 per cent of students admit to having caught a sexually transmitted infection . during their first year alone, according to a new survey. Nearly a quarter of students admit to having caught a sexually transmitted infection during their first year of university. The majority of encounters happened after drinking alcohol . The poll, rather ironically conducted by the website www.shagatuni.com, also revealed that 21 per cent caught an STI after their first year but before they finished their studies. The research . also revealed that theatre studies students appeared to be the most promiscuous, . with an average of 28 sexual partners while at university. The next most promiscuous are dance students, who have an average of 25 sexual partners. Media studies students have an average of 22 sexual partners and biology students have 19. 1. Drama/Theatre Studies - 282. Dance - 253. Media Studies/PR - 224. Biology students- 195. Philosophy and ethics - 176. English - 157. Sports science - 138. History of Art s - 139. Law - 1110.Geography - 10 . In contrast, law students have an average of 11 sexual partners during the time at university and geographers 10. Worryingly, . the survey of 2,177 young adults who had recently graduated found 89 . per cent of students do not use condoms for the majority of their sexual . encounters. The poll, which only involved people who . had remained single while at university, also revealed that 73 per cent . of students were under the influence of alcohol when engaging in the majority of their sexual encounters. More than half – 54 per cent – also admitted to being unable to recall who gave them their STI. Of . the respondents, 32 per cent said they found out about their infection . after being contacted by someone they had slept with who had been . diagnosed. Another 27 per cent said they were only diagnosed after being given a free testing kit. More than half of students who have had an STI - 54 per cent - admit to being unable to recall who gave them the STI . Nearly 60 per cent of students who caught an STI contracted chlamydia, 18 per cent caught herpes and 14 per cent genital warts. Possibly the most worrying finding was that 67 per cent of respondents said they would rather risk another STI than use a condom. In the past ten years, the number of under-25s being diagnosed with STIs had increased by almost 50 per cent. Gonorrhoea rates are increasing particularly rapidly - they have risen by a fifth in the last year. This is thought to be because of a new super-strain of the disease that cannot easily be treated with antibiotics. A report by Public Health England shows there were 448,422 new cases of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in 2012, including chlamydia, herpes and genital warts. The total was up by five per cent on the previous year and 46 per cent higher than 2003, when figures were first collected. Rates are highest among the under-25s, with nearly two-third of chlamydia cases, and more than half of gonorrhoea infections, occurring in this age group. The Public Health England report states: ‘The continuing high STI rates in England suggest too many people are still putting themselves at risk through unsafe sex, especially young adults and men who have sex with men.’ It urges the under-25s to ensure they use protection with ‘casual partners’ and have regular checks at sexual health clinics. Audrey Simpson, of the Family Planning Association, said there was less awareness of the importance of contraception among the young, adding: ‘The worry is that condom use is not being taught in schools. There may be less awareness in people’s conscience.’ | Some 700,000 children in England aged five to 17 will be offered the treatment (picture posed by model) Pupils will be vaccinated with a nasal spray this winter in a bid to stop the spread of flu. Some 700,000 children in England aged five to 17 will be offered the treatment in what will be the biggest school immunisation pilot for 30 years. Last year, the spray – called Fluenz – was offered to all children aged two and three but this year it will also be pitched to parents of all four-year-olds. And Public Health England (PHE) will trial the larger programme in primary and secondary schools to immunise pupils. Dr Nick Phin, head of flu at PHE, said: ‘This is an ambitious campaign but with good reason, because studies have shown children are “superspreaders” of the flu virus. When they sneeze, they often won’t have a handkerchief or wash their hands, and protecting them will help to protect their parents, siblings and grandparents. ‘The pilot of 700,000 schoolchildren is to identify and iron out any issues we may have with the programme.’ Although for most people flu is an unpleasant inconvenience, for others it can be deadly. Flu contributed to an estimated 8,000 deaths in England last year, mostly thought to be the elderly or infirm, or those with conditions such as asthma. Dr Paul Cosford, medical director at PHE, described the spray as a ‘quick, easy and painless’ way to prevent children catching flu and spreading it to others who are more vulnerable. He added: ‘People with certain long-term health conditions are at much greater risk of becoming seriously unwell if they catch flu and sadly, many end up in hospital.’ The Government is today launching a major campaign to encourage adults to take advantage of the free flu jab. Pregnant women, parents of young children and those with health problems are among those being targeted by officials. Last year only half of those eligible for the injection took up the offer. The Government’s chief medical officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, said: ‘I would urge those offered the free flu vaccination to visit their GP early in the flu season.’ The school nasal spray vaccination pilot is being run by 12 local authorities in the North East, the Midlands, Yorkshire, East Anglia and Sussex. Parents will receive letters inviting them to let their children receive Fluenz from the school nurse. Doctors think the nasal spray has great potential to encourage uptake among children averse to needles. However, it costs twice as much as the flu jab, with the cost of immunising all children in England estimated to be £100million a year. The last time there was such a large-scale school immunisation pilot here was in 1984 when the BCG was introduced to fight TB. | eng_Latn | 1,988 |
Study: Absent Dads Impact Daughters' Sexual Behavior | A new study reinforces the notion that a father's absence during his daughter's childhood can have a negative impact on the girl's sexual behavior. But the research challenges previous studies suggesting poverty is the main reason such girls are at a higher risk for early sexual activity and pregnancy. NPR's Rachel Jones reports. | Nomination for most eye-popping quote about the N.Y. Gov. Eliot Spitzer prostitution mess, from the Wall Street Journal: His brother, Daniel Spitzer, a neurosurgeon, said: "If men never succumbed to the attractions of women, then the human species would have died out a long time ago." (Thanks to EP Sharon Hoffman, on a train to NPR HQ in D.C.) | kor_Hang | 1,989 |
Teens' Sexual Attitudes Affected By TV And Mom | Movies, music and video games always seem to get a bad rap for flooding teenagers' minds with sex. The all-you-can-watch buffet of television is no exception. A heavy, TV-watching habit makes teens who don't have close relationships with their mothers more likely to have looser attitudes about sex, according to a study of about a thousand 16-year-olds in Belgium. Teens were surveyed about the amount of TV they watched, how close they were with their moms and their attitudes on sex. A strong mother-daughter relationship neutralized the TV effect on girls, the report from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven says. For boys, the risk actually increased if they were closer to their moms. So what's happening in the mother-son relationship that's not happening in the mother-daughter one? Continue Reading One theory that co-authors Laura Vandenbosch and Steven Eggermont offered is that when a mother encourages her TV-watching son to talk about sex, he might misinterpret her intentions as a confirmation of the importance of sex in his life or even as an approval of recreational sex. Another theory factors in the idea that the more time a boy spends with TV, the more time he is exposed to gender stereotypes. In the future, he might be more likely to reference those stereotypes and use them in making life choices. "Our work provides initial insights into the interaction effect between television viewing, maternal attachment and gender," the authors said in a joint statement, "and suggests that the influence of attachment to the mother on associations between television viewing and sexual attitudes appears to be risk-increasing for boys and risk-decreasing for girls." The findings were published online by the journal Sex Roles. I wondered if there was a way to quantify this effect so I've called and e-mailed the Belgian researchers. I will update the post if they get back to me. Obviously not all sexual socialization occurs in front of the tube. Teen influences include their parents, community, culture and peers. The authors suggest further research should be done looking at the relationships teens have with their fathers, among other variables. | How did last night's GOP debate influence Republican voters? Sacramento region reporter Tamara Keith watched the debate with some young Republicans in Sacramento to find out whether this last major debate before Super Tuesday was helpful in guiding their voting decisions. | kor_Hang | 1,990 |
Is it important to have a girlfriend? | Is it important to a boy to have a girlfriend? | Do I need an antivirus? | eng_Latn | 1,991 |
Should male teens have privacy? | Should female teens have privacy? | Does having some difference in parents' name in class 10 and 12 marksheet create any problem? | eng_Latn | 1,992 |
TV Shows Linked To Teen Pregnancy | A new study links provocative TV with unwanted teen pregnancy. So should you limit your kids TV time to Sesame Street or is there more here than meets the eye? Dr. Spiesel looks at the factors at play. ALEX CHADWICK, host: This is Day to Day from NPR News. I'm Alex Chadwick. MADELEINE BRAND, host: And I'm Madeleine Brand. Teenagers who watch a lot of TV with sexual content are twice as likely to have sex as their peers who don't watch a lot. That is the conclusion of a study by the RAND Corporation, a conservative think tank, and it's published in the journal Pediatrics. Our medical expert, Dr. Sydney Spiesel, is a pediatrician, and he's here now with his reaction to the study. Now, the study says teens who watch the most TV - and it points out the average is three hours a day, so the most is more than three hours a day - that they were twice as likely to be sexually active. How was that conclusion reached? Dr. SYDNEY SPIESEL (Pediatrician, School of Medicine; Yale University): Well, first of all, people, who are apparently tougher than I am, sat and watched a lot of shows, and they scored these shows for how much exposure to sex one would have if you watched the shows. And the exposure to sex meant, you know, scenes of flirtation, passionate kissing, intimate touching, even intercourse, either implied intercourse or even shown intercourse, and talk about sex. And so, the shows were being scored as being - as having high sexual content or low sexual content. And they'd picked out, I think, 23 shows that teens likely watched, and they then took up a large set of teenagers and got some sense - and this is, by the way, a great weakness of the - they just asked the kids, what do they watch. And then, they tried to correlate what the kids watched, the sexiness, the total sex content of what they watched with the likelihood or unlikelihood of their getting pregnant. And indeed, they found that the kids who at least said they watched a lot more television that had sexual content, those kids were, in fact, twice as likely - the kids at the extremes at each end were twice as likely as the kids who watched relatively little, very little stuff with sexual content. BRAND: Well, the, I guess, the obvious question I have with that is, how do you prove causation with that. Couldn't there be a whole host of other factors that would lead teens to be more sexually active, not necessarily watching too much TV? Dr. SPIESEL: Only about a million. (Soundbite of laughter) Dr. SPIESEL: Sure. It's a great weakness in the study. And, in fact, my take on it is that the authors had a kind of an agenda that they wanted to support. And so, they keep hinting more strongly than you even see - most papers are sort of cagey. Most medical papers are cagey about whether something is just an association or a causation. And they hint a lot that they think that the issue is causation, and I doubt it myself. I mean, it's true that, based on their study, that frequent exposure predicts early pregnancy, but, in terms of causation, we don't know. I mean, maybe sexier TV preference follows a generally stronger interest in sex. BRAND: You mean it would be the other way around? Dr. SPIESEL: Sure. I think it's equally probable that kids who are having either unprotected sex or more sex, they may just enjoy sex more on TV. Or the other thing they might enjoy is more sophisticated programming. BRAND: Well, let me play the devil's advocate with you for a moment and just ask, why wouldn't it be the case? I mean, everybody knows that television is greatly influential. Images, TV images are very influential, and teens are very influence-ible. So, why not? Why wouldn't that be a correlation? Dr. SPIESEL: Well, it might be. And I suppose that one could do further research that would demonstrate it one way or the other. Although, you know, you're already beginning with some assumptions. One assumption is that teens are very influenced by what they see on TV, and the other is that they're very influence-ible, and maybe they are. But none of those things have been entirely demonstrated, and they've certainly not been demonstrated around this particular issue yet. The way we think is that, if we see one event following another, we are inclined to believe that the following event is caused by the former event. And that's a terrible prejudice which is very difficult to get over, and it's certainly difficult to get over in terms of understanding scientific research, including often by scientific researchers. BRAND: Well, thanks, Syd. Dr. SPIESEL: Thank you. BRAND: That's Dr. Sydney Spiesel. He's a pediatrician and a professor at Yale Medical School. And we've been talking about a new RAND Corporation study that says teens who watch a lot of TV are more likely to be sexually active. CHADWICK: And you can find that full study at npr.org. | Many students face rising costs of birth control treatments on college campuses. <em>Chicago Sun-Times</em> columnist Mary Mitchell and Laura Sessions Stepp, author of <em>Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both</em>, talk about birth control and sex on campuses. | kor_Hang | 1,993 |
Teen Attitudes Towards Sex & Sexual Identity | GUESTS: Lauri Appelbaum Facilitator, Gay Lesbian Bisexual Trangender (GLBT) Support Group and Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) at Washburn High School Lynn Bretl Youth Health Counselor at the Naitonal Teen Pregnancy Prevention Research Center Softball coach at Washburn High School Dr. Robert Blum Professor and Director, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health at the University of Minnesota (specializing in teenage sexuality) Talk of the Nation will broadcast live from Washburn High School in Minneapolis as part of the Changing Face of America Series. From AIDs to Monica Lewinsky to our increasingly explicit media, today's young people have been exposed to much more sex than generations before them. While research shows a slight rise in abstinent behavior and a growing return to modesty among today's teens, this new generation is also proving to be more tolerant about many issues including sexual identity. Join Juan Williams and guests as they talk with teens about their attitudes towards sex and sexual identity. | UNDERSTANDING TECHNOLOGY THROUGH A CHILD'S EYES (REBROADCAST): Kids today rarely think of 'technology' as something separate from themselves. Rather, technology is infused into everything they do and see. So how can grown-ups rethink design ideas based on what the next generation is thinking? Tech Tuesday explores the intersection of technology and child development. (52 min.) | kor_Hang | 1,994 |
What are the pros and cons of peer pressure? | What are some of the pros and cons of peer pressure? | I am an undergraduate. All my friends smoke, but I don't. Am I missing something? | eng_Latn | 1,995 |
The imaginary audience and personal fable peak at what age? | A third gain in cognitive ability involves thinking about thinking itself, a process referred to as metacognition. It often involves monitoring one's own cognitive activity during the thinking process. Adolescents' improvements in knowledge of their own thinking patterns lead to better self-control and more effective studying. It is also relevant in social cognition, resulting in increased introspection, self-consciousness, and intellectualization (in the sense of thought about one's own thoughts, rather than the Freudian definition as a defense mechanism). Adolescents are much better able than children to understand that people do not have complete control over their mental activity. Being able to introspect may lead to two forms of adolescent egocentrism, which results in two distinct problems in thinking: the imaginary audience and the personal fable. These likely peak at age fifteen, along with self-consciousness in general. | Some researchers are now focusing on learning about how adolescents view their own relationships and sexuality; they want to move away from a research point of view that focuses on the problems associated with adolescent sexuality.[why?] College Professor Lucia O'Sullivan and her colleagues found that there weren't any significant gender differences in the relationship events adolescent boys and girls from grades 7-12 reported. Most teens said they had kissed their partners, held hands with them, thought of themselves as being a couple and told people they were in a relationship. This means that private thoughts about the relationship as well as public recognition of the relationship were both important to the adolescents in the sample. Sexual events (such as sexual touching, sexual intercourse) were less common than romantic events (holding hands) and social events (being with one's partner in a group setting). The researchers state that these results are important because the results focus on the more positive aspects of adolescents and their social and romantic interactions rather than focusing on sexual behavior and its consequences. | eng_Latn | 1,996 |
Is alcohol use a positive or negative emotion control mechanism? | Drinking habits and the motives behind them often reflect certain aspects of an individual's personality; in fact, four dimensions of the Five-Factor Model of personality demonstrate associations with drinking motives (all but 'Openness'). Greater enhancement motives for alcohol consumption tend to reflect high levels of extraversion and sensation-seeking in individuals; such enjoyment motivation often also indicates low conscientiousness, manifesting in lowered inhibition and a greater tendency towards aggression. On the other hand, drinking to cope with negative emotional states correlates strongly with high neuroticism and low agreeableness. Alcohol use as a negative emotion control mechanism often links with many other behavioral and emotional impairments, such as anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem. | Many cultures define the transition into adultlike sexuality by specific biological or social milestones in an adolescent's life. For example, menarche (the first menstrual period of a female), or semenarche (the first ejaculation of a male) are frequent sexual defining points for many cultures. In addition to biological factors, an adolescent's sexual socialization is highly dependent upon whether their culture takes a restrictive or permissive attitude toward teen or premarital sexual activity. Restrictive cultures overtly discourage sexual activity in unmarried adolescents or until an adolescent undergoes a formal rite of passage. These cultures may attempt to restrict sexual activity by separating males and females throughout their development, or through public shaming and physical punishment when sexual activity does occur. In less restrictive cultures, there is more tolerance for displays of adolescent sexuality, or of the interaction between males and females in public and private spaces. Less restrictive cultures may tolerate some aspects of adolescent sexuality, while objecting to other aspects. For instance, some cultures find teenage sexual activity acceptable but teenage pregnancy highly undesirable. Other cultures do not object to teenage sexual activity or teenage pregnancy, as long as they occur after marriage. In permissive societies, overt sexual behavior among unmarried teens is perceived as acceptable, and is sometimes even encouraged. Regardless of whether a culture is restrictive or permissive, there are likely to be discrepancies in how females versus males are expected to express their sexuality. Cultures vary in how overt this double standard is—in some it is legally inscribed, while in others it is communicated through social convention. Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transsexual youth face much discrimination through bullying from those unlike them and may find telling others that they are gay to be a traumatic experience. The range of sexual attitudes that a culture embraces could thus be seen to affect the beliefs, lifestyles, and societal perceptions of its adolescents. | eng_Latn | 1,997 |
As a tree ages, do its growth rings usually get wider or narrower? | If a tree grows all its life in the open and the conditions of soil and site remain unchanged, it will make its most rapid growth in youth, and gradually decline. The annual rings of growth are for many years quite wide, but later they become narrower and narrower. Since each succeeding ring is laid down on the outside of the wood previously formed, it follows that unless a tree materially increases its production of wood from year to year, the rings must necessarily become thinner as the trunk gets wider. As a tree reaches maturity its crown becomes more open and the annual wood production is lessened, thereby reducing still more the width of the growth rings. In the case of forest-grown trees so much depends upon the competition of the trees in their struggle for light and nourishment that periods of rapid and slow growth may alternate. Some trees, such as southern oaks, maintain the same width of ring for hundreds of years. Upon the whole, however, as a tree gets larger in diameter the width of the growth rings decreases. | Many cultures define the transition into adultlike sexuality by specific biological or social milestones in an adolescent's life. For example, menarche (the first menstrual period of a female), or semenarche (the first ejaculation of a male) are frequent sexual defining points for many cultures. In addition to biological factors, an adolescent's sexual socialization is highly dependent upon whether their culture takes a restrictive or permissive attitude toward teen or premarital sexual activity. Restrictive cultures overtly discourage sexual activity in unmarried adolescents or until an adolescent undergoes a formal rite of passage. These cultures may attempt to restrict sexual activity by separating males and females throughout their development, or through public shaming and physical punishment when sexual activity does occur. In less restrictive cultures, there is more tolerance for displays of adolescent sexuality, or of the interaction between males and females in public and private spaces. Less restrictive cultures may tolerate some aspects of adolescent sexuality, while objecting to other aspects. For instance, some cultures find teenage sexual activity acceptable but teenage pregnancy highly undesirable. Other cultures do not object to teenage sexual activity or teenage pregnancy, as long as they occur after marriage. In permissive societies, overt sexual behavior among unmarried teens is perceived as acceptable, and is sometimes even encouraged. Regardless of whether a culture is restrictive or permissive, there are likely to be discrepancies in how females versus males are expected to express their sexuality. Cultures vary in how overt this double standard is—in some it is legally inscribed, while in others it is communicated through social convention. Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transsexual youth face much discrimination through bullying from those unlike them and may find telling others that they are gay to be a traumatic experience. The range of sexual attitudes that a culture embraces could thus be seen to affect the beliefs, lifestyles, and societal perceptions of its adolescents. | eng_Latn | 1,998 |
What regions in the world does this apply in? | Antibiotics revolutionized medicine in the 20th century, and have together with vaccination led to the near eradication of diseases such as tuberculosis in the developed world. Their effectiveness and easy access led to overuse, especially in livestock raising, prompting bacteria to develop resistance. This has led to widespread problems with antimicrobial and antibiotic resistance, so much as to prompt the World Health Organization to classify antimicrobial resistance as a "serious threat [that] is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential to affect anyone, of any age, in any country". | Many cultures define the transition into adultlike sexuality by specific biological or social milestones in an adolescent's life. For example, menarche (the first menstrual period of a female), or semenarche (the first ejaculation of a male) are frequent sexual defining points for many cultures. In addition to biological factors, an adolescent's sexual socialization is highly dependent upon whether their culture takes a restrictive or permissive attitude toward teen or premarital sexual activity. Restrictive cultures overtly discourage sexual activity in unmarried adolescents or until an adolescent undergoes a formal rite of passage. These cultures may attempt to restrict sexual activity by separating males and females throughout their development, or through public shaming and physical punishment when sexual activity does occur. In less restrictive cultures, there is more tolerance for displays of adolescent sexuality, or of the interaction between males and females in public and private spaces. Less restrictive cultures may tolerate some aspects of adolescent sexuality, while objecting to other aspects. For instance, some cultures find teenage sexual activity acceptable but teenage pregnancy highly undesirable. Other cultures do not object to teenage sexual activity or teenage pregnancy, as long as they occur after marriage. In permissive societies, overt sexual behavior among unmarried teens is perceived as acceptable, and is sometimes even encouraged. Regardless of whether a culture is restrictive or permissive, there are likely to be discrepancies in how females versus males are expected to express their sexuality. Cultures vary in how overt this double standard is—in some it is legally inscribed, while in others it is communicated through social convention. Lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transsexual youth face much discrimination through bullying from those unlike them and may find telling others that they are gay to be a traumatic experience. The range of sexual attitudes that a culture embraces could thus be seen to affect the beliefs, lifestyles, and societal perceptions of its adolescents. | eng_Latn | 1,999 |
Subsets and Splits
No saved queries yet
Save your SQL queries to embed, download, and access them later. Queries will appear here once saved.