Older Boys Really Are a Bad Influence, Study Finds
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Parents who forbid their daughters  to date older boys may be on the right track. A study published  on Thursday finds that teenage girls who associate with older  boys are more likely to smoke, drink and use drugs.
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Kids who enter puberty early are more likely to use and abuse tobacco, alcohol and marijuana than those who physically mature later, mostly because their window of opportunity for experimentation is wider.
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Ten-year olds who spend more time engaging in activities typically associated with their gender tend to have more stereotypical academic interests, skills and characteristics two years later, new research reports.
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Studies of children indicate that people may be inherently prejudiced against those less fortunate. Bah, humbug, indeed.
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Children born to older fathers may have a higher risk of developing schizophrenia ( search ) than those with younger dads, according to a new study.
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Blog: A new study shows that this well-intentioned advice is not sufficient to protect children from unwanted sexual solicitation and harassment.
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Testosterone supplements don't do older men much good, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.
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Boys are less keen to go to university than their female counterparts, a survey suggests.
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Firstborn sons have higher IQs than their younger brothers, and their social status within the family may explain why, researchers reported on Thursday.
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A new study suggests that older children tend to have higher IQs than their younger siblings. Now scientists just have to figure out why.
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Youngsters who begin puberty at an early age are more likely to experiment with and abuse alcohol, tobacco and marijuana than kids who start puberty at a later age, says an Australian study in the September issue of the journal Pediatrics.
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Research from a leading debt charity suggests that older men are having the most difficulty with debt.
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A study of elderly men shows  that the higher their cumulative exposure to lead in everyday  life, the lower were their scores on a variety of cognitive  tests -- and the worse the deterioration over time.
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A tendency to over-protect children is preventing them from enjoying their childhood, it is claimed.
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Children born to older fathers have a higher than normal risk of developing schizophrenia later in life, Swedish scientists say.
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A quarter of adults believe disruptive children are beyond help by the time they turn 13, a survey indicates.
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"I'm very skeptical of the possibility of getting this worked out in a systematic way."  Wading into an age-old debate, researchers have found that firstborn children are smarter than their siblings -- and the reason is not genetics but the way their parents treat them, according to a study published Friday.The study of 240,000 Norwegian men in the journal Science found the IQs of firstborns were two to three points higher than their younger siblings.While that may not sound like much, experts said even a few IQ points can make a big difference over the course of a lifetime -- and set firstborns on a trajectory for success. Read more