NEWS YOU CAN USE
We’ve searched high and low through all of the latest sex & relationships articles out there of interest to parents. Here’s our round-up…
🌈 Happy Pride month! 🌈
TALKING OPENLY
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No thanks: 1 in 5 parents say they’ll never have “the talk” with their kids! (Study Finds, 18/6/22)
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What Are Adolescents Really Looking for in the Sex Talk? (Psychology Today, 10/6/22)
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The Books About Sex That Every Family Should Read (New York Times, 28/6/22)
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2 Graphic-Style Guidebooks to Calm Kids’ Social Butterflies (New York Times, 27/5/22)
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This book aims to make sex-ed for kids and teens a little more colourful and a little less awkward (CBC, 13/6/22)
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Real questions teenagers have about sex (RTE, 24/6/22)
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Talking About Sex With Our Kids In A Post-Roe World – by Vanessa Kroll Bennett of The Puberty Podcast (Scary Mommy, 24/6/22)
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Healthy Ways to Handle Conflicts – 26-minute podcast (Talking To Teens, 5/6/22)
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Five years ago I felt like a failure as a dad, now I’m sharing with other men how to love their children (Guardian, 19/6/22)
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A Question From A “Try-Hard Mum” – 16-minute podcast (Help! I Have A Teenager with Dr Ginni Mansberg & Jo Lamble, 9/6/22)
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First Loves and Desires – 39-minute podcast (The Puberty Podcast with Dr Cara Natterson & Vanessa Kroll Bennett, 28/6/22)
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“How did the baby get in there?” Is this a question you dread? – 14-minute podcast (Sitting In A Car with Sarah Sproule, 28/6/22)
SEX EDUCATION
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Parents blocked from seeing sex education material taught in schools which “denies biological sex” (GB News, 20/6/22)
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Ofsted cites lack of gender identity teaching in primaries as a factor in whether schools are downgraded as schools watchdog is accused of “pushing unscientific nonsense” (Daily Mail, 19/6/22)
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Condoms on cucumbers and Section 28: How LGBTQ+ education still needs to improve in schools (Metro, 19/6/22)
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Campaigners succeed in getting judicial review of compulsory sex education teaching in schools in Wales (WalesOnline, 8/6/22)
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Storm as Scots pupils brand SNP sex education classes “waste of time” (Scottish Daily Express, 22/6/22)
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“Parental rights” lobby puts trans and queer kids at risk (The Conversation, 21/6/22)
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“Bust One In Me”: New York School District Defends Raunchy Sex Ed Class (The Daily Caller, 246/22)
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Understanding children’s experience of PSHE and RSE (Children’s Commissioner, 10/6/22)
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Teens Create Tools for Stigma-Free Sexual Health Education (Rebellious, 13/6/22)
SEX EDUCATION THEMES ON SCREEN
See also BODIES & BODY IMAGE, PORN & SEXTING, GENDER STEREOTYPES sections below
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Tom Cruise’s Top Gun: Maverick makes the case for a wiser, more mature masculinity (MercatorNet, 8/6/22)
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Ryan Gosling’s Version Of Ken Is Giving Off Serious “Earring Magic Ken” Vibes (HuffPost, 15/6/22)
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“It didn’t feel awkward”: Good Luck To You Leo Grande’s Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson opted not to use an intimacy coach for sex scenes because they wanted to do their own “unique” thing (Daily Mail, 24/6/22)
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Bridgerton’s Simone Ashley on Her Wild Sex Education Intimacy Training That Involved... Snails? (People, 23/6/22)
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Lightyear Ratings Plummet, Same-Sex Scene Sparks “Review Bombs” (Inside The Magic, 16/6/22)
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Lightyear Gets Warning Sign for Gay Kiss Scene at Oklahoma Theater, Sparking Backlash (MovieWeb, 26/6/22)
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10 LGBTQ+ rising stars – from Heartstopper stars to Ariana DeBose (Radio Times, 28/6/22)
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7 Coming-of-Age Shows like Love, Victor to Watch After Season 3 (Collider, 15/6/22)
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Love, Victor’s Cast and Creators Reveal Why its Final Season Is More Important Than Ever (E! Online, 15/6/22)
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10 Best Shows Like Queer As Folk (Screen Rant, 19/6/22)
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About Time Subverts Toxic Masculinity Within its Father-Son Relationship (Collider, 19/6/22)
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A Sexplanation Explores What Sex Education Should Be Like (INTO, 13/6/22)
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Central Park Creator Josh Gad on Molly’s Puberty Journey (Variety, 15/6/22)
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SA made documentary Embrace: Kids to premiere this September (South Australian Film Corporation, 23/6/22)
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Dear Bollywood, Stop Distorting The Idea Of Sex & Ruining It For Generations To Come (ScoopWhoop, 11/6/22)
PORN & SEXTING
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What should children be taught about pornography, and who should teach them? (YouGov, 27/6/22)
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Child porn is at a viewing high, but is this the way to stop it? (Metro, 12/6/22)
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Emma Thompson, 63, says she finds young people’s expectations of sex “can be very disturbing indeed” due to “easy access to pornography” (Daily Mail, 9/6/22)
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Charlie Sheen now supports daughter Sami, 18, after she opened an OnlyFans account and says ex-wife Denise Richards has “illuminated” him following his initial disapproval (Daily Mail, 20/6/22)
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Controversial Movie Is Being Called The Most Honest Film Ever Made About The Porn Industry (Unilad, 10/6/22)
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Raised on Porn Documentary Details How Porn Ruins Children’s Lives and Their Relationships – includes link to 36-minute film (CNSNews – fastest-growing conservative website, 21/6/22)
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Children are being asked for nude pics and I don’t want this world for my daughter (The Courier, 27/6/22)
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Social media sex act spiralling out of control in Australia (The Australian, 20/6/22)
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Unsolicited explicit photos to teens form of abuse, say researchers (Stuff.co.nz, 19/6/22)
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Have You Had The “Sexting” Chat With Your Kids & Should Parents Take Online Safety Courses? – includes 7-minute Loose Women discussion (The Global Herald, 23/6/22)
SEXUAL HARASSMENT & RAPE CULTURE
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The problem in schools isn’t cancel culture – it’s rape culture (New Statesman, 24/6/22)
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Viral “Canceled at 17” article prompts heated debate about cancel culture (Independent, 23/6/22)
CONSENT
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Dame Emma Thompson on importance of sex and female pleasure on screen in Good Luck To You, Leo Grande: “It’s something we’re so thirsty for” (Metro, 18/6/22)
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Emma Thompson: “Nobody Cares About Women’s Pleasure” (Glamour, 20/6/22)
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Utah Kept Them from Learning about Consent, So These Teens Found a Place to Have “the Talk” Together (Scientific American, 13/6/22)
BODIES & BODY IMAGE
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Billie Eilish Gets Candid About Her Relationship With Her Body AKA Her “Ugly Friend” (Elle, 22/6/22)
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“The hardest thing I’ve ever had to do” – how Emma Thompson came to accept her naked body (Daily Express, 24/6/22)
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Roe v Wade: The Supreme Court Overturns Landmark Abortion Ruling – includes 9-minute video Young People React to Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh (Teen Vogue, 25/6/22)
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Keep Talking To Your Kids About Abortion – It’s More Important Than Ever (Romper, 24/6/22)
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How to discuss the overturning of Roe v. Wade with our kids (OnlySky, 12/5/22)
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How To Talk To Your Kids About Abortion (HuffPost, 24/6/22)
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Abortion With Pills: What is it? – 4-minute animation (amaze.org, 16/6/22) plus see the 4-minute What Is An Abortion? (amaze.org, 20/6/20)
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What To Tell Our Daughters – blog post by feminist Jessica Valenti (All In Her Head, 25/6/22)
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Libresse normalises menstrual health convos with interactive tour of the womb (Marketing Interactive, 13/6/22)
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1 in 5 Aussie boys think periods should be kept secret (Canberra Weekly, 12/6/22)
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First periods can come as a shock. 5 ways to support your kid when they get theirs (The Conversation, 8/6/22)
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Why are girls starting puberty so early and what can parents do to support them? (Irish Examiner, 24/6/22)
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My son doesn’t want to eat anymore (Independent Australia, 19/6/22)
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I gave up dieting for my kids. Here’s why (CNN, 20/6/22)
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Sex Hormones and Your Teen’s Brain – 28-minute podcast (Talking to Teens, 12/6/22)
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Harry Styles wows 180,000 at concert – but his mum reveals she’s still his biggest fan (Mirror, 19/6/22)
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Customer hits out at supermarket giant Aldi for selling “sexist” children’s books: “We need the conversation to become non-binary” (Daily Mail, 14/6/22)
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Girls do like hard maths, says children’s commissioner for England (Guardian, 17/6/22)
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School BANS all pupils from wearing skirts under strict new “gender neutral” rules (Mirror, 11/6/22)
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Victoria College: Belfast girls school gives pupils trousers option (BBC, 22/6/22)Mail says builders have “gone woke” because they “talk about their feelings” (The London Economic, 19/6/22)
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This construction worker’s takedown of the Daily Mail’s “woke builders” story is important and supremely satisfying (The Poke, 21/6/22)
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Why are books on the English school curriculum still in the grip of straight, white men? (Guardian, 7/6/22) – plus reaction from End Sexism In Schools and 2 others: Children need more than this limited literary diet of white, male authors (Guardian, 14/6/22)
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How to talk to boys about being a boy (CNN, 10/6/22)
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Are You Raising A Misogynist? (Scary Mommy, 24/6/22)
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75 Father’s Day Movies To Watch With The Father Figure In Your Life (Scary Mommy, 16/6/22)
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Louisa Rechenbach’s sensitive documentary They follows a family raising their child with a “gender open” approach – includes 10-minute film (It’s Nice That, 15/6/22)
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Fathers and Sons: Masculinity, Men, and Relationships (Psychology Today, 16/6/22)
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Michael Ian Black on Vulnerability, Masculinity and Teaching His Son to Be a Better Man (Next Avenue, 16/6/22)
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Being a good father means rethinking masculinity (Vox, 18/6/22)
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The Big Happiness Interview: How dads can reject toxic masculinity and be happier (Metro, 19/6/22)
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Father’s Day: Dads should let sons know there’s more to being a man than showing toughness (Akron Beacon Journal, 19/6/22)
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In Photos: Black Photographers on Black Fatherhood (GW Today – The George Washington University, 14/6/22)
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In Portraits of My Father, Antoine Didienne examines parenting, masculinity and love through photography (San Diego Union-Tribune, 19/6/22)
🌈 LGBT+ IDENTITIES & ISSUES See also SEX EDUCATION THEMES ON SCREEN 🌈
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One in 10 UK parents “would never speak to their child about what LGBT means” (Metro, 23/6/22)
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Condoms on cucumbers and Section 28: How LGBTQ+ education still needs to improve in schools (Metro, 19/6/22)
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MP praises Heartstopper for “saving lives” in trans conversion therapy ban debate (PinkNews, 14/6/22)
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Jake Daniels’ coming out will be "absolutely key" as UK celebrates 50 years of LGBT+ Pride (Mirror, 25/6/22)
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“The kids clapped me, the whole school”: Yorkshire head on telling pupils he’s gay (Guardian,14/6/22)
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Seattle Pacific University Student on Pride Flag Protest at Graduation (Teen Vogue, 16/6/22)
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“Powerful”: LGBT teens tell us we inspired them to come out, says reality stars who found love at first sight on telly (Irish Sun, 27/6/22)
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Rebel Wilson Has Spoken Out For The First Time Since A Newspaper Sparked Backlash For Seemingly Trying To Reveal Her Sexuality (Buzzfeed, 13/6/22)
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“It’s time for you to live your life now as you want to”: Dame Kelly Holmes heaped with praise and hailed as an “inspiration” by documentary viewers after coming out as gay (Daily Mail, 27/6/22)
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Florida teen who staged walkouts over “Don’t Say Gay” introduces Joe Biden at White House Pride event (Independent, 15/6/22)
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Fox News Pride Month Segment Leaves Conservatives “Stunned” (Townhall, 11/6/22)
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Long Island library reverses decision to ban LGBTQ displays from children’s section – includes 39-second news report (FOX 5 NY, 23/6/22)
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“Not labelling yourself is safer”: LGBTQ+ young people on why they don’t label themselves – student voice (The Tab, 21/6/22)
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We Asked Young Queer People About Big Company Branding During Pride Month (Vice, 10/6/22)
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Dwyane Wade, Cynthia Nixon and More Celebrity Parents Supporting Their LGBTQ Kids (US, 7/6/22)
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How to have positive discussions about LGBTQ Pride with children (South China Morning Post, 11/6/22)
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Fiverr and Tiktok Stars, The Old Gays, Publish an Inclusive Children’s Book for Pride Titled “My Four Fabulous Uncles” – includes link to children’s ebook (Business Wire, 14/6/22)
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Rising number of LGBTQ youth explained by a “dash of trendiness” – conservative student opinion (Campus Reform, 16/6/22)
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Same-sex cartoon kiss shock?! Rightwing outrage is light years from real world (Guardian, 18/6/22)
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Lightyear’s anti-gay critics can buzz off, says Chris Evans (Guardian, 14/6/22)
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Field trip to Disney Pixar movie Lightyear canceled after parents upset over same-sex kiss (Wink News, 24/6/22)
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US Theatre Faces Backlash For Warning Over Same-Sex Kiss In Lightyear Film (Unilad, 24/6/22)
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Disney to feature its first gay teen romance in the upcoming animated film Strange World – includes 1.5-minute trailer (Gay Times, 20/6/22)
BOOKS
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Pride 2022: Interviews with Authors on Their LGBTQ+ Middle Grade Novels (Publishers Weekly, 14/6/22)
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20 best kids and young adult books by LGBTQ+ authors in 2022 (NBC News, 8/6/22)
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12 books for kids and teens to read during Pride Month 2022 – by Canadian authors (CBC, 20/6/22)
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Summer reading: 5 books on the joys and challenges of LGBTQ teen and young adult life (The Conversation, 16/6/22)
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Primary-age children’s screen time went up by 83 minutes a day during pandemic – study (Guardian, 24/6/22)
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Covid lockdowns have caused a “global mental health crisis” in children due to “deep impact of school closures”, WHO admits (Daily Mail, 20/6/22)
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Youngsters trust politicians less than influencers to give truthful news – poll (Evening Standard, 19/6/22)
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Lawmakers Want Social Media Companies to Stop Getting Kids Hooked (Wired, 15/6/22)
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BYU study: How much screen time is too much for kids and parents? (Deseret News, 23/6/22)