Psychology & Psychiatry
Boys with absent fathers more likely to become young dads
Boys who grow up without a dad around are more likely to reach puberty later, but father their own children earlier, according to a new study.
Sep 8, 2011
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News tagged with boys
Attention deficit disorders
Girls have ADHD too – here's why doctors may be missing them
Asked what they know about attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, many people will likely tell you that it mostly affects children, and mostly boys. However, recent research has shown that neither of these perceptions ...
Aug 23, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Parents misled by advocates of single-sex education
There is no scientific basis for teaching boys and girls separately, according to Lise Eliot from The Chicago Medical School. Her review reveals fundamental flaws in the arguments put forward by proponents of single-sex schools ...
Aug 18, 2011
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Health
Gay male teens use adult hookup apps to find friends, partners
Although hookup apps require users to be 18 or older, a new Northwestern Medicine study found that more than 50 percent of sexually active gay and bisexual boys ages 14 to 17 met male sexual partners on apps such as Grindr ...
May 18, 2018
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Health
Progress toward eliminating child marriage in India has stalled, says study
Child marriage has declined in India—but across the country, one in five girls and nearly one in six boys are still married as children, and in recent years the practice has become more prevalent in some states/union territories, ...
Dec 15, 2023
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Health
How watching TV and their relationship to Mom affects teenagers' sexual attitudes
Can teenagers' relationship with their mother protect them from the negative effects that television has on their sexual attitudes? It depends on their gender, according to a new study by Laura Vandenbosch and Steven Eggermont, ...
Oct 12, 2011
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Health
The age of puberty for Danish children appears to continue to fall
The age at which children enter puberty has fallen in a large number of Western countries, including Denmark. A new Danish study from the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University indicates that the age of puberty ...
Nov 27, 2018
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Pediatrics
Teenagers' pornography and sexual experiences—fewer differences than expected
Although a greater proportion of teenage boys than girls watch and fantasise about sex they have seen in pornography, there are no differences between the sexes when it comes to what types of sex they fantasise about. This ...
Apr 8, 2014
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Autism spectrum disorders
Girls with autism may need different treatments than boys
(HealthDay)—With four to five times more males affected by autism spectrum disorders than females, much less is known about girls with autism.
May 2, 2013
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A different take on differences between men's and women's brains
There is greater variety in the size of men's brains than of women's. This could help explain why some psychiatric disorders such as ADHD and autism are more prevalent in boys. Leiden brain researcher Lara Wierenga has published ...
Jun 28, 2017
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