The challenges of being young and female
This week the British think tank Demos published a study of young women which is co-authored by my son Richard.
The report suggests that, compared to boys, British teenage girls experience worse rates of binge drinking, worse levels of physical inactivity and more frequent incidences of teen pregnancy than their European counterparts. In the course of this research, the researchers found evidence that twice as many teenage girls as teenage boys suffer from ‘teen angst’
You can read the media release here and the full study here.