February 05

How Risky Are Social Networking Sites?

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How Risky Are Social Networking Sites? A Comparison of Places Online Where Youth Sexual Solicitation and Harassment Occurs
Source: Pediatrics

Broad claims of victimization risk, at least defined as unwanted sexual solicitation or harassment, associated with social networking sites do not seem justified. Prevention efforts may have a greater impact if they focus on the psychosocial problems of youth instead of a specific Internet application, including funding for online youth outreach programs, school antibullying programs, and online mental health services.

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September 30

The Centre For The Study Of Childhood And Youth

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The Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth conducts multidisciplinary, policy oriented research focusing upon childhood and youth studies, and research methodologies. The Centre was established in 2002 and brings together scholars from sociology, education, criminology, law, health, social work and social policy, landscaping, management school, psychology, geography, nursing and midwifery whose research concerns “the lives of children and young people in modern society”. The website provides information about research projects and programs. There is a list of publications and conference and event information. Intute.ac.uk
http://cscy.group.shef.ac.uk/
September 30

Childhoods Today: An Online Journal For Childhood Studies

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Childhoods Today is a peer reviewed, multidisciplinary e-journal produced by the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield. This bi-annual journal commenced in 2007. It is open access and provides a forum for the publication of articles by postgraduate students. Topics cover any aspect of research or theory relating to the study of childhood in sociology, anthropology, education, geography, psychology, social policy and social welfare. The journal is in pdf format and requires Adobe Acrobat software to access. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.childhoodstoday.org/

September 17

Orphanhood Tanzania

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The long-run impact of orphanhood

Summary: This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes, in a region of Northwestern Tanzania. The paper studies a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced and re-interviewed as adults in 2004. A large proportion, 19 percent, lost one or more parents before the age of 15 in this period, allowing the authors to assess the permanent health and education impacts of orphanhood. The analysis controls for a wide range of child and adult characteristics before orphanhood, as well as community fixed effects. The findings show that maternal orphanhood has a permanent adverse impact of 2 cm of final height attainment and one year of educational attainment. Expressing welfare in terms of consumption expenditure, the result is a gap of 8.5 percent compared with similar children whose mother survived till at least their 15th birthday.

Source: The World Bank

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August 03

UNICEF. Children And Domestic Violence

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