{"id":5488,"date":"2011-04-23T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2011-04-23T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T15:08:01","slug":"the-challenges-of-being-young-and-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=5488","title":{"rendered":"The challenges of being young and female"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the British think tank Demos published a study of young women which is co-authored by my son Richard.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2018teen angst\u2019<\/p>\n<p>You can read the media release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demos.co.uk\/publications\/throughthelookingglass\">here<\/a> and the full study <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demos.co.uk\/files\/Looking_glass_-_web.pdf?1303410606\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5491,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions\/5491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}