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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Health & mental health in teens esp girls

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Z0rr0 · 22/01/2021 14:29

I'm doing a bit of research on health issues, especially mental health issues for teenagers, inequalities, disadvantage, particularly for girls.
I'm thinking period poverty, obv
Increase in anxiety, stress, self harm
ROGD
Autism differences
Lack of sport uptake
Would really appreciate any pointers on other research, books, orgs that work in this area, youth-led advocacy or interventions tackling health issues.
You guys are super knowledgeable so anything you can chuck in would be really useful.
Thank you.

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Mumofgirlswholiketoplaywithmud · 22/01/2021 16:36

I'd add to that list:

-rates of sexual abuse and harassment
-effect of social media on body image

  • effect of objectification of women in porn (particularly violent porn) being more mainstream and more teenagers likely to be exposed to it
GCITC · 22/01/2021 16:40

Lack of time actually spent together.

Z0rr0 · 22/01/2021 17:07

Thanks @GCITC this is of course true especially for now, but more generally I feel a lot of kids don't get out as much and socialise. I worry that they don't know how to actually talk to each other because they only communicate online
I talk to my daughter about her friends from school and she doesn't know anything about them really - their hobbies, after school activities, things they watch on TV, where they go on holiday.
Is that a thing now?
It seems weird not being able to make smalltalk and I feel will set them back quite a lot in the workplace.

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Z0rr0 · 22/01/2021 17:08

Good point about porn / sexual violence @Mumofgirls

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