The Roundup contains information about all of the latest news, commentary, reports, surveys, issue briefs, charts, and fact sheets related to boys' issues collected by our staff during the preceding week.

News Clips

• Engineers study male urine ‘splashback'
  It may not create world peace, but it could make the bathroom a kinder, gentler � or at least cleaner � place. “Most men, at least once in life, they’re wearing the right fabric or they need to use the bathroom real fast and they realize they just speckled themselves,” said Randy Hurd, a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Brigham Young University.
  The Morning Sun
  November 7, 2013

• Bisexual Men Aren't at Greater HIV Risk: Review
  Analysis of 3,000 studies found they were 40 percent as likely as homosexual men to have AIDS virus.
  Health Day
  November 6, 2013

• Teenage Boys Ask Reddit, "Am I Ugly?"
  Last month, the Internet collectively frowned over a depressing new genre of viral video: teenage girls taking to YouTube to ask anonymous strangers, “Am I pretty or ugly?” The good/bad news is that this plugged-in permutation of adolescent insecurity isn’t just a girl thing.
  Slate.com
  November 6, 2013

• The Rules for Being a Boy
  Insight into the bullying and stereotypes that happen in 'Boy World'
  In "Masterminds & Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World," parenting expert and author Rosalind Wiseman collaborated with teen boys to explain peer dynamics and how they can be navigated.
  US News
  November 6, 2013

• Science Could Determine If Bad Boys Will Become Adult Criminals
  Psychologists from the University of Michigan say they’ve developed a new, hi-tech way to neurologically pinpoint trouble-making children. Recent advancements in the field of neurogenetics are helping researchers find the origins of certainneurological disorders and functions and, according to the latest study, the propensity for poor behavior can be identified in the brain. This, say the researchers, could allow parents to essentially “correct” any behaviors that they find unattractive in their children.
  Red Orbit
  November 5, 2013

• Adolescents and Wrestling: Two gender issues could have far-reaching effect on PIAA
  Currently, the Line Mountain School District bars females from participating in boys contact sports unless the board specifically deems a sport coed. Wrestling is not so designated in the school district.
  Reading Eagle.com
  November 5, 2013

• VIDEO: The Graduates - The Boys
  This film explores pressing issues in education today through the eyes of six Latino and Latina students from across the US. The second episode features Juan, who was bullied as a gay teen until he discovered dance; Eduardo, who is steered away from the gang path when introduced to a special college prep organization; and Gustavo, whose dreams of college are blocked by his undocumented status.
  PBS
  November 5, 2013

• HPV Vaccine Rates Lagging in Southern U.S., Study Finds
  Results concern researchers who say cervical cancer cases due to the virus are high in the South.
  Young women living in the South have much lower rates of vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV) than women in other parts of the United States, a new study reveals.
  Healthfinder.gov
  November 5, 2013

• Eating disorders more common in boys than thought
  Body image issues and eating disorders are assumed to mostly affect women; however, a new study reveals eating disorders are more prevalent in the male population than previously thought. The research by doctors at Boston Children's Hospital and published in JAMA Pediatrics, found that 17.9 percent of adolescent boys were extremely worried about their weight and physique.
  Health Central
  November 5, 2013

• Bodybuilding Boys Often Try Drugs and Alcohol, Study Finds
  Preoccupation with body image can lead to risky behaviors, researcher says
  US News
  November 4, 2013

• Strength training may boost kids' activity: study
  Whether children can and should participate in strength training has been a contentious issue. But new research suggests it is safe and may encourage young people to be more active in their everyday lives.
  Baltimore Sun
  November 4, 2013

• Teens on violence, bullying: Half of high school boys admit to hitting out of anger
  There are some troubling results in this survey released today of 23,000 high school students, including an acceptance of violent behavior by many students.
  Atlanta Journal Constitution
  November 4, 2013

• Report calls for systematic testing after a concussion
  Most research on concussions suffered by adolescent athletes has focused on when it is safe for them to return to the sport. But there's another problem that requires more attention, according to a clinical report presented at the recent national conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics in Orlando.
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  November 1, 2013

• Here’s Why Drug Policy Reform Is Gaining Momentum
  How do governments know drug enforcement is working? Generally by measuring seizures, arrests, and convictions�based on the assumption that the more drugs are confiscated, and the more drug users and dealers are imprisoned, the fewer drugs will be available. That assumption appears to be wrong.
  Open Society Foundations
  October 29, 2013

• NEARLY 5 IN 10 UNINSURED SINGLE YOUNG ADULTS ELIGIBLE FOR THE HEALTH INSURANCE
  Marketplace could pay $50 or less per month for coverage in 2014
  Nearly 5 in 10 (46 percent, or 1.3 million) uninsured young adults in single-person households who may be eligible for the Health Insurance Marketplace may be able to purchase a bronze plan for $50 per month or less after tax credits, based on analysis of data in 34 states.
  US Department of Health and Human Services
  October 28, 2013

• Dr. Robert Ross: $50 Million to Save Black and Brown Boys
  Imagine that you walk into the newborn-nursery ward at an American hospital and you see 100 babies in their bassinets. You are then informed that 33 of these babies will spend time in jail or prison. This is the reality today for African-American males born in our country. As a black husband, father and physician, I am sick of it. So I asked the board of the private health foundation I lead for a three-month leave to investigate why opportunity and wellness elude so many of our black, Latino and Asian Pacific Islander sons. Their shades of brown may be different, but many of them face the same challenges: growing up fatherless, dropping out of school, going to jail or getting killed.
  The Root
  October 22, 2013

• NIDA’s drug abuse information for teens goes mobile
  Teens � and adults who care for them � can now find answers to questions about drug abuse and addiction more easily, and through smartphones and tablets.
  National Institutes of Health
  October 21, 2013

• A look at the health of Hispanic adolescents in the U.S.
  Our nation’s adolescents are becoming increasingly diverse, and this trend will continue in the decades to come. Today, more than one in five youth between the ages of 10 and 19 in the United States is Hispanic. By 2020, that figure will rise to approximately one in four and, by 2040, nearly one in three adolescents will be Hispanic. The Office of Adolescent Health (OAH), in collaboration with the Office of Minority Health, offers a snapshot of how Hispanic adolescents are faring on a range of critical health indicators.
  Reflejos.com
  October 13, 2013

International News

GERMANY

• Germany allows 'indeterminate' gender at birth
  Germany has become Europe's first country to allow babies with characteristics of both sexes to be registered as neither male nor female. Parents are now allowed to leave the gender blank on birth certificates, in effect creating a new category of "indeterminate sex".
  BBC
  November 1, 2013

INDIA

• Girls outnumber boys in medical courses across the country
  DNA India
  November 8, 2013

IRELAND

• GPA’s mission to battle mental health taboo among young Irish males
  Tragic death of Niall Donohue strengthens Gaelic games organization's effort to reach players in need
  With Donohue’s passing last week the GPA and the wider GAA have been encouraged to redouble their efforts to tackle the issue of mental health and suicide in Ireland.
  Irish Central
  November 6, 2013

• Are boys putting themselves at risk in the battle to bulk up?
  Experts are warning that boys are being drawn to supplements in a bid to build up muscle before their bodies are ready. Nutritionist Sarah Keogh says that teens are at risk of causing long-term damage to tendons and ligaments.
  Herald.ie
  November 4, 2013

JAPAN

• Researchers: Male chimps that lose mothers at young age suffer early deaths
  Male chimpanzees that have lost their mothers during childhood or adolescence tend to die younger, according to researchers at Kyoto University. It had been assumed that mothers are not critical to the survival of weaned male chimpanzee offspring. But the latest findings, announced Nov. 5, suggest that the physical and psychological support of the female parents could have a serious impact on the later lives of males.
  The Asahi Shimbun, N0vember 6, 2013

UAE

• One in five teenage boys in UAE smokes, report finds
  Levels of tobacco use by young people were described as shocking on Monday after a new study found one in five boys aged 13 to 15 was a smoker.
  The National
  November 4, 2013

UK

• Adolescents take twice as long as adults to get treatment for psychosis
  Under-18s who experience psychosis go untreated after their first psychotic symptoms for twice as long as adults, according to new research.
  Imperial College of London
  November 8, 2013

• Young mental health patients are being let down by the medical education system
  New research from Sunderland University claims many GPs feel uncertain and anxious when working with young people suffering from mental health issues and find them professionally challenging to work with.
  Sunderland Echo
  November 8, 2013

• Bully in the next bedroom - are we in denial about sibling aggression?
  Almost a third of the 3,600 children questioned said they had been the victim of some sort of sibling aggression in the past 12 months. The included a range of acts from theft and psychological abuse to physical assault, either mild or severe. In comparison, research suggests that up to a quarter of children are victims of schoolyard aggression every year.
  BBC
  November 8, 2013

• Why is puberty starting younger?
  Yet another study has found that girls are starting puberty at a younger age, and that the trend is linked to obesity. But is precocious puberty the new norm?
  The Guardian
  November 4, 2013

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