Friday, September 12, 2008

Struggling School-Age Boys

(Celina, I am pretty sure this is the article/study you were referring to in our convo yesterday.)

By Peg Tyre | Newsweek Web Exclusive
"A new study says parents are right to worry about their sons.

Every other week it seems a new study comes out that adds to our already-formidable arsenal of parental worries. But even by those escalating standards, the report issued last week by the federal government's National Center for Health Statistics contained a jaw-dropper: the parents of nearly one of every five boys in the United States were concerned enough about what they saw as their sons' emotional or behavioral problems that they consulted a doctor or a health-care professional. By comparison, about one out of 10 parents of girls reported these kinds of problems."

Read the rest of this Newsweek article here.

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