The following is excerpted from an online article posted by PsyPost. A new study published in The Journal of Sex Research indicates that Swedish adolescents are using pornography more frequently, with notable shifts in their attitudes. Between 2004 and 2020–21, both boys and girls have become more tolerant of pornography, yet increasingly skeptical of its…
The following is excerpted from an online article posted by MedicalXpress. Generations of parental warnings may not be wrong: A massive study of available data finds that teens who use marijuana have significantly worse outcomes at school. Data from 63 studies involving almost 440,000 youths found “cannabis use during adolescence is probably associated with lower…
The following is excerpted from an online article posted by MedicalXpress. Lower attention ability in adolescence can predict cigarette and cannabis use in young adulthood, according to new research from Trinity College Dublin. Sustained attention, the ability to maintain focus on a task over time, is an important cognitive ability. Substance use, particularly cigarettes and…
I vividly remember the moment the pediatrician gently told my husband and I that our newborn was not the picture of health we envisioned. Just hours after her birth, I was resting in the hospital bed dressed in a stylish oversized gown. I was counting down the hours until we were discharged with only normal,…
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There’s a fire in her belly. . . and it comes from being an athlete, being a coach, and being a parent who kept an aggressive schedule of sports activities for her own kids. And the fire in her belly… Read More The post Youth Sports: Perspective Needed! appeared first on The Center for Parent…
The following is excerpted from an online article posted by MedicalXpress. A 19-year study at the University of Virginia is revealing what may lead some young adults to suffer from debilitating depression and anxiety. Researchers found adolescents who struggled to form and maintain meaningful friendships were more likely to experience negative emotions and a poor…
The following is excerpted from an online article posted by MedicalXpress. Being a teen during the first part of the COVID pandemic meant experiencing many milestones—the first day of high school, birthdays, graduation—from behind a computer screen. Pandemic isolation had a marked effect on young people. But a recent University of Washington study found teen…
The following is excerpted from an online article posted by News-Medical. In a recent study published in The Journal of Nutrition, researchers in the United States analyzed data from the US NHANES study to evaluate the nutritional status of US adolescents and the impacts of added egg consumption on observed patterns. Alarmingly, over 60% of…
The following is excerpted from an online article posted by HealthDay Chroming, where toxic fumes from common household items are inhaled for a quick high, is on the rise among youth and TikTok may be to blame, new research suggests. In findings to be presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics annual meeting in Orlando,…