Psychology & Psychiatry
Kids have skewed view of gender segregation
Children believe the world is far more segregated by gender than it actually is, implies a new study led by a Michigan State University scholar.
Jan 9, 2014
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Health
Trans and gender-fluid teens left with few 'safe harbors'
Transgender and gender-fluid teens, particularly those born male, face up to three times more mental and physical abuse at school and at home than their gender-conforming peers, according to a new study from UC Berkeley.
Feb 28, 2017
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Health
China allows couples to have three children as birthrate falls
China will allow couples to have three children after a census showed its population is rapidly ageing, state media said Monday, further unwinding four decades of strict family planning controls in the world's most populous ...
May 31, 2021
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American children exposed to high amounts of harmful background TV
Children from the age of 8 months to 8 years are exposed to nearly 4 hours of background TV per day, according to a top paper to be presented at the International Communication Association's annual conference (Phoenix, AZ, ...
Apr 19, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Psychologists find that adults take girls' pain less seriously
Gender stereotypes can hurt children—quite literally. When asked to assess how much pain a child is experiencing based on the observation of identical reactions to a finger-stick, American adults believe boys to be in more ...
Jan 25, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Child marriages in Indonesia increase women's depression, research shows
An estimated 640 million girls and women in the world today were married in childhood, according to UNICEF. The prevalence has slightly declined: with one in five young women aged 20 to 24 years being married as children, ...
May 16, 2023
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Health
Few kids use recommended safety restraints in cars
Despite the fact that car crashes are the leading cause of death for children older than three years in the U.S. and send more than 140,000 children to the emergency room each year, new research has found that low proportions ...
Aug 7, 2012
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Health
Health progress threatened by neglect of gender
The Sustainable Development Goals offer the prospect of ensuring healthy lives for the world's population by 2030. But this ambition will not be realised without eliminating gender inequality and changing society's attitudes ...
May 31, 2019
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Pediatrics
Researchers find current evidence for puberty blockers and hormone treatment for gender transition is inadequate
The evidence on the use of puberty blockers and hormones for children and young people experiencing gender related distress is wholly inadequate, making it impossible to gauge their effectiveness or their impact on mental ...
Apr 9, 2024
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
No sons linked to lower contraception use in Nepal
While poverty and under-education continue to dampen contraception use in Nepal, exacerbating the country's efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality rates, researchers say another, more surprising factor may be more ...
Mar 14, 2013
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