Teen Girls Who Play Video Games With Parents Are Less Depressed
According to a new study, girls 11-16 years old who play video games with their parents are less depressed and, in the words of this Bloomberg report, "generally better behaved" than those who don't. Apparently "Rock Band" creates Stepford children.
According to a new study, girls 11-16 years old who play video games with their parents are less depressed and, in the words of this Bloomberg report, “generally better behaved” than those who don’t. Apparently “Rock Band” creates Stepford children.
Your support matters…Bloomberg:
Girls who play video games with their parents are generally better behaved and showed lower rates of depression than those who don’t, according to a study.
The benefit, reported in the Journal of Adolescent Health, wasn’t seen in boys, possibly because males spend less time gaming with their families than they did playing video games alone or with friends, the authors said.
Independent journalism is under threat and overshadowed by heavily funded mainstream media.
You can help level the playing field. Become a member.
Your tax-deductible contribution keeps us digging beneath the headlines to give you thought-provoking, investigative reporting and analysis that unearths what's really happening- without compromise.
Give today to support our courageous, independent journalists.
Health & Wellness
Many store shelves remain bare as the private and government response struggles to produce results.
Military
Military food insecurity and our obsession with defense spending.
About 200, most with their mothers, are locked in squalid camps and prisons in other countries, but Tunisia has refused to take them in.
The Massachusetts Democrat is the first 2020 presidential contender to create a policy that addresses the issue.
Top U.S. immigration chiefs urge the secretary of homeland security to detain and criminally prosecute undocumented adult border-crossers, which would result in separating them from their children.
Now that fundamentalists have their man in the White House, they are running another assault on democracy that would make the late televangelist Jerry Falwell proud.
You need to be a supporter to comment.
There are currently no responses to this article.
Be the first to respond.