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CNN
The American Academy of Pediatrics has hardened its stance against spanking children as a form of parental discipline.
In a new policy statement, published in the journal Pediatrics, the pediatricians' group recommends that adults caring for children use "healthy forms of discipline" — such as positive reinforcement of appropriate behaviors, setting limits and setting expectations — and not use spanking, hitting, slapping, threatening, insulting, humiliating or shaming.
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University of Bristol via Medical Xpress
Societal acceptance of domestic violence against women is widespread in developing countries, with 36 percent of people believing it is justified in certain situations.
Using Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2005-2017, researchers at the University of Bristol analyzed data from 1.17 million men and women in 49 low- and middle-income countries.
These findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE today and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council Future Research Leaders award, will help shape national and international strategies to prevent domestic violence.
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American Heart Association via Medical Xpress
Trauma, including abuse and neglect, is associated with higher cardiovascular disease risk for lesbian and bisexual women, according to preliminary research to be presented in Chicago at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2018.
Sexual minority (lesbian and bisexual) women are more likely than heterosexual women to be stressed, use tobacco, binge drink and be obese. Why these cardiovascular risk factors occur more among sexual minority women isn't clear, but some think abuse, neglect and other trauma plays a role.
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KOIN-TV
A new system will allow sexual assault victims in Washington to track their own test kits using a barcode.
Washington State Patrol said medical staff, police and prosecutors will be able to scan the barcode to track the case as it moves forward. Even the victims will have access to the system to see the status of their kit.
"The primary purpose behind this system is to help survivors get some answers," Chief John R. Batiste said in a press release. "That was the difficult part for a lot of survivors, is that they had no idea where their kits were."
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Palo Alto Online
A victim of sexual violence who lives in the northern part of Santa Clara County will soon no longer have to travel to Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose for a forensic exam, also known as a rape kit, under an agreement being worked out between the county and Stanford University.
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BBC News
North Korean officials commit sexual abuse against women with near total impunity, according to a report from rights group Human Rights Watch.
HRW said such abuse is so common it has become part of ordinary life.
The report is based on interviews with 62 North Koreans who fled the country and provided detailed accounts of rape and sexual abuse.
The group said it revealed a culture of open, unaddressed abuse, particularly from men in positions of power.
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TIME
Seated in a classroom on the bucolic fringes of Cambodia’s capital, three dozen teenagers put a radically new term to the test: affirmative consent.
Armed with only scissors and a definition, they are instructed to separate a list of scenarios – persistent requests for a kiss, drunken smooches, physical advances on a subordinate – into whether each is consensual or not. A debate ensues.
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Northeastern University via Medical Xpress
When we talk about gun violence in the United States, we talk about homicides. But there are roughly twice as many suicides as homicides every year, and more than half of them involve guns.
According to a new study by Matthew Miller, a Northeastern professor of Health Sciences, most people have no idea that suicide is the most common type of violent death.
"There's widespread misperception about what causes violent death in the United States," said Miller, who co-authored the study with researchers from Harvard and the University of Washington.
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Loughborough University via Medical Xpress
A Loughborough-led study aimed at investigating the experiences of children in Tonga has uncovered systemic and cultural abuse and mistreatment of children in families and schools.
The 78-page report authored by Professor Jo Aldridge highlights some of the routine violence, verbal abuse and commonplace 'punishments' experienced by six-to-17-year-olds across the Polynesian islands.
Tonga's Prime Minister ʻAkilisi Pōhiva unveiled the findings, which described children being hit with planks of wood and sticks, whipped, denied food and forced to carry out tasks, as a form of discipline, by teachers and close family members.
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Alaska Public Media
The State of Alaska is chipping away at the thousands of backlogged and untested sexual assault kits. But officials with the Department of Public Safety stress that recent progress is partially due to one-time grant funds, and that it needs more resources to keep up with rising demands for DNA testing in violent and sexual crimes.
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TIME
The rate of girls under the age of 14 who undergo female genital mutilation in Africa has seen a “huge and significant decline” over nearly three decades, according to a new analysis.
The study, published Wednesday in the global health journal BMJ, drew on data from two prior surveys that covered nearly 210,000 children in 29 countries between 1990 and 2017, Agence France-Presse reports.
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TVNZ-TV
The Government has called this figure unacceptable and a concern.
The Ministry of Health Heterosexual Health Survey found 96 percent of men were willing on their first sexual experience, however it dropped to 84per cent for women.
The survey asked if respondents had had an experience of sex against their will since age 13.
Eleven percent of women responded they had, compared to three percent of men.
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The Huffington Post
HuffPost Maghreb’s Ibtissam Ouazzani has written a fascinating article about the prevalence of “virginity testing” in Morocco and what it might take to stop it.
The World Health Organization and United Nations are on a mission to end the practice — an invasive physical exam performed in more than 20 countries to determine whether a woman (often a bride-to-be) has had sex.
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