Girls who spend a lot of time using multimedia seem are less happy and socially comfortable than peers who spend less time on screens, a study from Stanford University suggests. Read more…
Last week in the Guandong province of China, a two-year-old girl wandered out into a busy street and was hit by a passing van. If the incident doesn’t sound tragic already, what followed can only be described as criminal. After the driver first realized he had run over the young girl, video footage shows him looking out his window, only to continue forward and running over her again with his back right wheel. The surveillance footage also shows that eighteen pedestrians or bicyclers passed by the child without stopping to help until a woman collecting street garbage came along to pick her up. The video ends with a devastated mother running out onto the street looking for her daughter. The likely cause of such neglect? The injured toddler was a girl. Read more…
Deirdre Fleming Mercatornet.com
A mother and public health student offers ten reasons not to vaccinate children against a sexually transmitted disease.
Imagine this. You are the parent of an eleven year old daughter. Early in the school year you receive a consent form for the standard Year 7 immunisations: Hepatitis B, Diphtheria-Tetanus-Pertussis, Chickenpox and Human Papillomavirus (HPV). Do you just tick all the boxes, or do you spend time considering the implications of your decision? Read more…
Pauline Cooper, Mercatornet.com
Australian academics and activists collaborate in a new book to challenge the sexualisation of girls.
The cell phone is a very handy tool for a Gen X girl like myself. Having lived through the texting revolution I can speak first hand of how my social life has been transformed and how this new mode of communication has been the vehicle for positive cultural change. Read more…
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