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The growing wave of self-injurious behaviors in young adults

The growing wave of self-injurious behaviors in young adults

This article attempts to provide a brief introduction about Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and its various motives. The prevalence rates and barriers to help-seeking are also discussed. It is essential that we go beyond mere acknowledgment of this behavior and instead build community-oriented support systems to help people struggling with this behavior.

Trigger Warning: This article speaks about Self-injury.

Spoil the sex-typing and spare the child: A review of gender-neutral parenting

Spoil the sex-typing and spare the child: A review of gender-neutral parenting

Gender-neutral parenting is a parenting style whereby children are raised without enforcing any gender norms until they are ready to self-identify their gender. This unconventional, somewhat controversial approach has been making the rounds on popular media of late as more and more people are growing disenchanted by normative gender roles. This article explores the phenomenon of gender-neutral parenting, with reference to Sandra Bem’s Gender Schema theory of sex-typing.