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UK campaign group The Dad Shift is staging a “dad strike” on June 11, to protest the poor paternity leave available to fathers in the UK. Fathers and other parents are being asked to “picket […]

Kim Tak-un was four years old when he was adopted by a Swedish family in 1974. Originally from South Korea, Tak-un had lived with his single father, a laborer who moved frequently for work. One […]

In Florida, a bill that bans cellphone use in elementary and middle schools, from bell to bell, recently sailed through the state Legislature.This post was originally published on this site

A recent study published in Social Work in Public Health explores the complex experiences of sexual agency among LGBTQ+ young adults experiencing homelessness in New York City. The research, conducted by CUNY SPH Associate Professor […]

Research led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics has confirmed that female faces are rated as more attractive than male faces across diverse cultures, ethnicities, and regardless of the rater’s gender—a pattern that […]

It started with a TikTok trend. Makenzie Schroeder, a graduate student in the University of Missouri’s College of Arts and Science, noticed people were posting filtered photos of themselves looking slimmer, often captioned with phrases […]

Walter Cronkite was often cited as “the most trusted man in America” as he delivered the news on CBS in the 1960s and ’70s—a time when fewer news options created a “shared reality” that scholars […]

Octopuses have been one of mapmakers’ favorite symbols for hundreds of years—used primarily to portray threats of political movements, financial systems, warring empires and the unknown.This post was originally published on this site

As parents, our instinct is to protect and insulate kids in times of uncertainty. But sometimes this is impossible due to playground bullies, stress at home caused by sudden layoffs, cutthroat academics or sports—the list […]

Young people understand the concept of sexual consent. But gender norms and social expectations often make it difficult to act on their own desires. A new doctoral thesis in Social Work from the University of […]