The blog about Social Issues
This road is full of terrifying hazards – many of our teens travel it every day… Depression. Bullying. Steroid abuse. These are some of the most harrowing issues affecting young people today. The threat they pose is reaching crisis levels. Counselors and educators all over The United States and Canada struggle to keep ahead of [...]
We found this story in the Washington Blade: The White House is set to hold a conference next week in which President Obama will hear concerns about anti-LGBT bullying. The anti-bullying prevention conference, scheduled to take place at the White House on March 10, is being hosted by Obama, the Department of Education and [...]
Found via the National Partnership for Women and Families website. A new report, commissioned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, reached the following conclusions: Sex education programs that advise students to delay sexual activity while also offering instruction on ways to avoid unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections effectively reduce risky sexual behavior, [...]
A new study from the University of California, Berkeley examines the growing disparity between the children of Hispanic Immigrants and their American counterparts and demonstrates the importance of early childhood education. From today’s New York Times By and large, mothers from Latin American countries take care of their health during their pregnancies and give birth [...]
From Reuters, a new national poll from C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital finds that parents don’t think that schools are doing a good job addressing the issue of bullying. From the story: “What this poll shows is that parents are still very concerned about bullying in their schools. about three-quarters of states nationwide have implemented bullying [...]
Because of rising Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) rates, some local governments are planning on instituting some new policies. From The Daily Women’s Health Report: Washington, D.C., officials are planning to make testing for sexually transmitted infections available at all public high schools in the coming school year, adding D.C. to a growing list of cities [...]
In the New York Times, Perri Klass, M.D. looks at the issue of bullying and talks about how pediatricians are poised to help combat this longstanding problem. Next month, the American Academy of Pediatrics will issue a new policy statement about bullying prevention. This new approach, based on a sucessful program developed in Norway, will [...]
A recent Rand Study concluded that drug education for adolescents can have long term impacts on sexual behavior. From Denise Witmer at About.com:Teens: Researchers found that young adults who had been exposed to a popular drug abuse prevention program as adolescents were less likely to engage in risky sexual behavior five to seven years later, [...]
