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It’s Not Just a Feeling: Data Shows Boys and Young Men Are Falling Behind Boys’ educational achievement, mental health and transitions to adulthood indicate that many are not thriving www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...

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What (Actually) Brings Teens Joy? We asked dozens of them about where they find tiny doses of happiness www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/m...

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“Is Teen Romance Dead? I'm 17 and I'm Sick of Snapchat Situationships” www.teenvogue.com/story/is-tee...

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Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...

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How a fix for smoking sparked a new crisis Uh oh, the quest for a safer cigarette may have backfired. www.vox.com/public-healt...

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Who Are Boys’ Role Models Today? greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

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'Bigorexia' Is On The Rise. Here's What Parents Should Know. Although it can affect anyone, this lesser-known disorder commonly affects boys and young men. www.huffpost.com/entry/bigore...

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Your brain is biased to negativity. Here’s how to be more positive. Negativity bias may have evolved to help us survive. But it also can ramp up our anxiety. wapo.st/3EFx0v3

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Why experts say AI companions aren't safe for teens — yet Youth mental health and safety experts are most worried about these AI companion features. mashable.com/article/ai-c...

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A Global Flourishing Study Finds That Young Adults, Well, Aren’t New data collected from more than 200,000 people across the world shows that young people aren’t as happy as they used to be. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/w...

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The Rise of the ‘Crunchy Teen’ Wellness Influencer High schoolers are appealing to other health-conscious kids online, sometimes by expressing views in line with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/w...

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Love this thread by @jlray.bsky.social, and fully agree that we need more men talking to boys, being curious about what they like and interested in them as people, and then helping guide them.

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How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/m...

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@jfschroeder.bsky.social and I are thrilled to introduce our new book, TALK TO YOUR BOYS. Read all about it, and find out why we really really want you to preorder it today: open.substack.com/pub/teenheal...

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RFK Jr. Reportedly Wants to Defund the National Suicide Hotline for LGBTQ+ Youth www.them.us/story/rfk-jr...

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Far-right fight groups endorse ‘youth clubs’ targeting US young men and boys Using fitness and sports as entry points into neo-Nazi ideologies, ‘youth club’ chapters are proliferating across US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Common chemicals in plastic linked to over 350,000 deaths from heart disease Researchers estimate that exposure to phthalates contributes to 13 percent of all heart disease deaths in people between ages 55 and 64 each year worldwide. wapo.st/4iGeFfb

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Teens, Social Media and Mental Health Most teens credit social media with feeling more connected to friends. Still, roughly 1 in 5 say social media sites hurt their mental health, and growing shares think they harm people their age www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

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Meta Chatbots Using Voices Of John Cena & Kristen Bell Got Sexually Explicit, Even With Minors – Report deadline.com/2025/04/inst...

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These young men were sucked into the manosphere. Here's how they found a way out. www.usatoday.com/story/life/h...

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How a school nurse convinced parents to vaccinate their kids against measles www.edweek.org/leadership/h...

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Reducing the rigidity of gender role expectations has a big effect on boys, and those effects ripple outward positively into the school and community. I share some ideas about how to do this in this Vox interview: www.vox.com/even-better/...

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I read this essay by Brendan Kwiatkowski through @mrpepper.bsky.social newsletter, and he’s right, it’s a really good discussion of Adolescence and why it’s not a good idea to show it in schools.

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The New Gender Gaps What to do as men and boys fall behind www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/05/harv...

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Adolescence’ and the Surprising Difficulty of Hugging a Teen Son www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/o...

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Your Weed Habit May Be Messing With Your Sperm www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/w...

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Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A Group Of College Students Started A TikTok Channel To Teach "Sex Ed For Guys" And It's Working www.scarymommy.com/lifestyle/se...

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For the past two weeks, my news feed has been full of stories about the Netflix show “Adolescence.” In this post, I share a lot of ideas about how to process the show and talk about it with teens. www.teenhealthtoday.com/p/how-to-tal...

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Teenage boys are in crisis. The creators of Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ want adults to pay attention www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/e...

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The Pandemic Ruined High School for Them. They’re Learning to Live Again. Stuck in their bedrooms, the class of 2021 missed important rites of passage — first job, first car, first date. Now young adults, they’re making up for what they missed at 16. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/w...

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The good news is that there are people meeting the moment. youtu.be/EJxRtjma7lc

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The Generation That Grew Up Online Is Logging Off Years of mindless scrolling left me anxious, depressed and disconnected. Today, I lead social media detoxes so young people can live offline. macleans.ca/society/how-...

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The Gender Gap in Teen Experiences Teen girls and boys in the U.S. face different pressures and have different experiences at school but want the same things out of life www.pewresearch.org/social-trend...

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RFK Jr. says measles vaccine routinely causes deaths. That’s not true www.statnews.com/2025/03/14/r... via @statnews.com

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F.D.A. Issues Warning About Galaxy Gas and Other Nitrous Products The agency is advising people to avoid misusing or inhaling the products that are marketed as whipped cream chargers but have been used as recreational drugs. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/s...

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Spotify takes down Andrew Tate ‘pimping’ podcast after complaints www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ma...

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Teenagers Say Girls Are Equal to Boys in School, or Are Ahead Reflecting a generational change, two Pew surveys show boys tend to feel discouraged in the classroom, and are less likely than girls to pursue college. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

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Your Questions About Fentanyl, Answered President Trump suspended tariffs intended to stop fentanyl from entering the United States. Here’s what to know about the opioid.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/well/what-is-fentanyl.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2k4.JluZ.yHJD2hBLP-3l&smid=bs-share

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NIH puts former Sexual & Gender Minority Office employees on administrative leave The seven had been reassigned to other NIH offices in December www.statnews.com/2025/03/06/n...

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More Teens Than You Think Have Been ‘Deepfake’ Targets www.edweek.org/technology/m...

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Why Everyone Needs a Crash Course in Gender and Sexuality 101 How Uninformed Opinions Shape Public Understanding of Gender and Sex open.substack.com/pub/emilydep...

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The Trump administration’s orders have created more turmoil and damage at the National Institutes of Health than was previously known.

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In a new twist, today I saw that a curriculum maker released a censored version of its lessons, meant to comply with Trump executive orders. If you want to uncensored version you have to request the “international” edition.

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I’m a mother of sons — how do we raise good men? Joeli Brearley has spent a decade fighting for women’s rights. Now she’s created a podcast to share expert advice on bringing up boys www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

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