Trend Lines Blog: Mapa Mundial De La Familia |
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 This month marked the international release of the World Family Map report, including its Spanish translation. The kick-off was hosted by the University of Piura in Peru, a country where the family has great importance as a social unit; the report is already generating much interest there.
In their blog post, Child Trends' Laura Lippman, director of education research, and Mindy Scott, a senior research scientist, review indicators about families in nine countries of Central and South America. For example, taken as a region, many Central and South American countries have lower marriage and higher cohabitation and non-marital childbearing rates than those of just about any other region in the world-including Europe and North America. Adults in the surveyed region report that family satisfaction and trust are high, and disagreements about housework are rare. Students report the highest levels of communication on political and social issues in the world.
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We're Pumped About Adolescent Health |
 It's National Physical Fitness and Sports Month! Child Trends, as the communications contractor to the Office of Adolescent Health (@TeenHealthGov), worked with the agency and other co-hosts to host a #MoveInMay Twitter chat on adolescent physical fitness and sports on Tuesday, May 14th. The President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (@FitnessGov), the Office on Women's Health (@WomensHealth and @GirlsHealth), and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (@GoHealthyPeople) were co-hosts of the chat and special guest GENYOUth Foundation (@GENYOUthNow)also joined the discussion.
The chat raised awareness of the importance of and challenges to physical activity in the teenage years, and disseminated best practices and resources to those who work with and care about adolescents. Thanks to heavy participation in the chat, #MoveInMay was one of the most popular topics on Twitter that day! OAH will be posting a Storify of the chat here shortly - check it out, and join in on future adolescent health chats!
Health is one of Child Trends' research areas; you can find more resources on the topic here. To find out what works in programs that focus on the health of children and youth, search our LINKS Database.
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Child Trends' Carlise King, interim executive director of the 
