| Description |
ix, 310 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Billion-dollar babies -- What baby boys need to thrive -- Shrinking childhood -- A tween's world -- Tween boys, food and fashion -- Losing tween boys to virtual worlds -- Reclaiming childhood -- Engaging tween boys -- Young boys in need of good blokes -- The impact of the stories we tell -- Early sexualisation -- Puberty sucks -- Boys and their need for possessions -- Why looks matter -- Worries about body image -- Peer pressure -- The bullying thing -- Stressed-out boys -- Understanding a boy's feelings -- Mums and their boys -- Why boys love their computers -- Not enough sleep -- The weird world of cyberspace -- The secret lives of boys -- Addicted to gaming -- The alcohol generation -- The drug scene -- Boys and cars -- The sex lives of teen boys -- Boys into porn -- Camboy -- When sex becomes sexual assault -- Mental health issues -- Living in a violent world -- When boys are vulnerable to violence -- Why dads matter -- Role models and rites of passage -- When boys push the boundaries -- Building resilience -- Where to now? |
| Summary |
Following the success of What's Happening to Our Girls?, this book investigates a wide range of the challenges boys and young men face as they grow up in the early 21st century. These include things such as increasing pressure on young boys to buy into consumerist culture, their exposure to violent video games, early sexualisation and exposure to pornography, the particular risks they face as young drivers, drugs and alcohol, mental health issues, safety on the internet, and bullying |
| Analysis |
Attitudes |
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Boys |
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Children |
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Drug use and abuse |
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Information and communications technology |
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Overseas item |
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Pornography |
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Psychological stress |
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Social conditions |
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Youth |
| Notes |
"At risk. How the new technologies, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and porn affect our boys"--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Teenage boys -- Conduct of life.
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Teenage boys -- Drug use.
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Teenage boys -- Sexual behavior.
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Teenage boys -- Sexual behaviour
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Teenagers -- Social conditions.
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| Author |
Hamilton, Maggie.
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| LC no. |
2011379975 |
| ISBN |
9780670073931 (paperback) |
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