Sexualisation 'harms' young girls
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Sexualised images of girls in advertising and the media harms their mental and physical health, experts warn.
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More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.
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VIENNA -- Young girls born in Europe to immigrant families from Africa are subjected to ritual genital mutilation, and authorities are doing little to discourage it, a leading activist for women's rights warned yesterday.
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Getting teased at school can be especially damaging to kids with endocrine problems, and may cause them to put their health at risk, according to new study findings.
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Children using hugely popular social  networking Web sites such as MySpace.com and Bebo.com face  bullying, unsuitable advertising and pornography, a report by a  UK consumer watchdog magazine said on Thursday.
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Forty percent of Britain's teenage girls have considered the prospect of plastic surgery, while fewer than a tenth say they are happy with their bodies, a magazine poll said.
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The way a girl grows during adolescence and even in the womb may play a key, if murky, role in her risk of breast cancer later in life, a study suggests.
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Are girls getting more violent, or is their behavior being reported in new ways?
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Young people should be informed about sexual health services and have access to them, ministers say.
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Teenagers who watch a lot of television with sexual content are twice as likely to engage in intercourse than those who watch few such programs, according to a study published on Tuesday.
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The legal case of a girl with special educational needs could prompt a rethink of the use of restraint in schools.
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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 a Australian study in the September issue of the journal Pediatrics.
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Measures to protect female patients from being sexually abused by doctors should be strengthened, a report says.
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Tall, thin teenage girls who put on a growth spurt at puberty are at highest risk of breast cancer - and milk may be the culprit, researchers suggest today.
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Comment is free: Libby Brooks: Pre-teens are increasingly being deluged with the message that an alluring appearance ought to be their ultimate goal
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Comment is free: Mark Lawson: Moral panic over the sexualisation of child stars is not only a modern phenomenon.
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Police and internet companies launch a website for children to report possible paedophile activity.