Young people and gender survey

09/01/17 . Partners

The NCB, the National Children's Bureau, is after young people's views on gender and emotional and mental wellbeing.

The 'getting on' survey wants to hear from young people aged 13-24 on ways of dealing with stressful or difficult things in life – in particular, how ideas about gender affect this. Young people are invited to complete a short survey or a longer survey which takes about 20-30 minutes with a prize draw for each. 

Boys are more likely than girls to be diagnosed with conduct disorder whereas girls are more likely to be diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorders. But diagnosis is only part of the story. What's really going on? Does gender affect how young people cope with stresses, or how others react to their behaviour? Tell NCB and you could win Love2Shop vouchers.

The Men’s Health Forum need your support

It’s tough for men to ask for help but if you don’t ask when you need it, things generally only get worse. So we’re asking.

In the UK, one man in five dies before the age of 65. If we had health policies and services that better reflected the needs of the whole population, it might not be like that. But it is. Policies and services and indeed men have been like this for a long time and they don’t change overnight just because we want them to.

It’s true that the UK’s men don’t have it bad compared to some other groups. We’re not asking you to ‘feel sorry’ for men or put them first. We’re talking here about something more complicated, something that falls outside the traditional charity fund-raising model of ‘doing something for those less fortunate than ourselves’. That model raises money but it seldom changes much. We’re talking about changing the way we look at the world. There is nothing inevitable about premature male death. Services accessible to all, a population better informed. These would benefit everyone - rich and poor, young and old, male and female - and that’s what we’re campaigning for.

We’re not asking you to look at images of pity, we’re just asking you to look around at the society you live in, at the men you know and at the families with sons, fathers and grandads missing.

Here’s our fund-raising page - please chip in if you can.

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