*isn't* a phthallic symbol?? Cheers!
Posted on 08/14/2010 9:33:35 PM PDT by TaraP
Increase in children with Autism
Feminine boys, homosexual explosion
Puberty hitting girls at younger ages....
Something is going on...
They’ll probably require it to be used in school meals from now on.
Thanks for posting!
*isn't* a phthallic symbol?? Cheers!
FROM 2003
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/972970/posts
Girls get extra school help while boys get Ritalin
At last June’s graduation at Franklin High School just outside of Milwaukee, three of the four students who tied for valedictorian were girls. Among the National Honor Society members, 76% were girls. And girls comprised 85% of the students on Franklin’s 4.0 honor roll.
The superintendent of schools for this upper-middle-class suburb, Gerald Freitag, investigated those numbers after the parents of a boy filed a complaint. He found that the skewed performances by gender at Franklin pretty much mirror the imbalances across the state and the nation.
This week, teachers at the middle school feeding into Franklin received training on how to reach out to boys. And high school teachers will continue the gender-sensitivity classes they began last school year.
But reversing the trend will not be easy. In classrooms nationwide, girls are pulling ahead of boys academically. Recent federal testing data show that what starts out as a modest gap in elementary-level reading scores turns into a yawning divide by high school. In 12th grade, 44% of girls rate as proficient readers on federal tests, compared with 28% of boys. And while boys still score slightly higher on federal math and science exams, their advantage is slipping.
Most startling is that little is being done to correct the imbalances. All of the major players schools, education colleges and researchers largely ignore the gender gap. Instead of pursuing sound solutions, many educators merely advocate prescribing more attention-focusing Ritalin (news - web sites) for the boys, who receive the drug at four to eight times the rate of girls, according to different estimates. “Too often the first reaction to an attention problem is ‘Let’s medicate,’ “ says Rockville, Md., child psychologist Neil Hoffman. “Some schools are quick to recommend solutions before they’ve fully evaluated the problem.”
Now I can understand why my youngest son is so into looking in the mirror & fussing over his hair.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
There were plenty of fops in the old days too.
This article was from 1997
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Modern living is hitting men right where it hurts the most, with sperm counts falling more quickly than anyone thought, U.S. researchers said Monday.
Experts who set out to dispel fears of falling sperm counts found they were even lower than had been reported. “I think this study will change the debate about sperm decline from ‘if’ to ‘why’,” said Shanna Swan, chief of the reproductive epidemiology section at the California Department of Health Services, who led the study.
“feminize” boys make good serfs when they grow up!
Is this corporate game plan? Naw, they would do that!
“Something is going on.”
Regarding early puberty in girls. I have long believed and think I read it years ago that our high sugar consumption has something to do with early puberty. I was allowed very little sugar, only developed one cavity a year starting in high school where the lunch had a sweet dessert each day. I remember wondering with my mother why my monthly had not started and I was already 14 years old. If you are afraid your daughter will start early, with attendant pregnancy fears, start restricting sugar, the earlier the better.
Someone mentioned big Pharma pushing anti-depressants to pregnant women. One of the biggest pushers of sugar decades ago was a Dr. Stare of Harvard University. I think he was subsidized by the sugar industry.
A fish oil a day would do the same thing.
Phth-phth-phth-phthalates!
how about bc pills having something to do with girls maturing faster? Plastics are in almost everything..
how about bc pills having something to do with girls maturing faster? Plastics are in almost everything..
This article speaks about that..
Taking the pill for past 40 years ‘has put women off masculine men’
It ushered in the 1960s sexual revolution and gave women control over their own fertility.
But the Pill may also have changed women’s taste in men, according to a study.
Scientists say the hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a woman’s interest in masculine men and make boyish men more attractive. Although the change occurs for just a few days each month, it may have been highly influential since use of the Pill began more than 40 years ago.
How reliable was the study..how controlled and was lifestle considered?
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