Should Gambling Risks Be Taught In School?

Why some schools are adding betting to the curriculum. PLUS: Studies are showing that phone bans work.

In this edition:

• I’m A Teenager Who Was Lured Into The Manosphere. Here’s How To Reach Young Men Like Me

• As Teens Are Targeted by Online Gambling, What’s the Role of Loneliness and Schools?

• More Teens Vape Daily, Struggle to Quit

• Teenage Boys Using ‘Personalized’ AI For Therapy And Romance, Survey Finds

• Studies Are Showing That Phone Bans Work

• Richard Reeves and Niobe Way: Should Traditional Masculine Norms And Behaviors Be Celebrated Or Demonized?

• Who Deserves To Eat?

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I’m A Teenager Who Was Lured Into The Manosphere. Here’s How To Reach Young Men Like Me (The Guardian)

By Josh Sargent: If you judged modern boyhood from the headlines, you’d think we were broken – radicalized, misogynistic, angry. But as a teenage boy myself, I don’t see a generation of lost boys around me. I see young men trying to make sense of a world that seems apathetic to our voices.

I’d be the first to admit that there are serious issues facing young men my age – I’ve experienced some of them first-hand. Between the ages of 12 and 14, I was drawn into harmful online communities promising me money, meaning and manhood. Muscular, wealthy men, parading through Dubai draped in designer labels and flanked by beautiful women flooded my feed. They said there was no excuse for the rest of us not to be in their position too, and offered what they claimed was a blueprint to get us there. Misogyny was rife in these communities, as was political extremism. READ MORE

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As Teens Are Targeted by Online Gambling, What’s the Role of Loneliness and Schools? (KQED Mind/Shift)

By Linda Flanagan: When the school year began in Virginia this fall, teenagers entering public high schools have something new on their curriculum: instruction on how to better understand and avoid the risks of gambling. Funded by the state’s very own gambling industry, the lessons aim to educate students on luck and chance, the risks of addiction, the nature of online betting and other messages.