Co-Guest editors Ramona Faith Oswald and Anisa Zvonkovic invited us to comment on the article by Dyer (2024) in special issue, Theorizing Academia: Critical Futuristic Perspectives. In her article, Dyer, as a faculty member at highly regarded teaching-focused state university, offers perspective how Human Development Family Science evolved from Home Economics. We agree with many of Dyer's thoughts, but our deviates author's some cases, perhaps due part own scholarly institutional...

Two proposed U.S. federal laws would provide explicit protection for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students in public schools. These follow actions by many states school districts to define implement or policies protect the safety of LGBTQ Research during past decade has shown that youth are a vulnerable population, negative experiences often contribute their vulnerability. This Social Policy Report reviews research relevant these federal, state, local...

Ninth- and 11th-grade students (N = 379) were surveyed regarding their evaluations of excluding someone from a social group solely on the basis his or her reference membership. Individuals evaluated exclusion in ambiguous nonambiguous situations. Judgments reasoning about compared with judgments more prototypically moral situation (denial resources). Overall, participants as less wrong than denial resources used fewer conventional reasons to justify judgments. Participants relied knowledge...

Outside the immediate classroom setting, efforts within other school spaces also can shape climate, address inequality, and affect student performance. Nevertheless, in this respect there has been little research on school-based extracurricular groups focused issues of social inclusion justice. An exception to lack focus Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), which promote justice for sexual gender minority youth (e.g., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning youth; LGBTQ) through...

This issue of the Journal Social Issues presents current theory, research, and methodological considerations pertaining to “Young People's Perspectives on Rights Child.” The following brief introduction charts landscape children's rights by outlining purpose goals issue, provides a short historical overview topic, sets context for individual articles, highlights recurring themes making up this JSI. authors articles in extend knowledge thinking topic children also set foundation future...

Within the United States, protecting rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in school elicits much controversy debate. On one side is argument that all should be able to receive an education free from discrimination, harassment, harm. other by LGBT ' rights, schools are infringing on others their individual beliefs about homosexuality. To investigate these competing arguments, we surveyed high school‐aged heterosexual adolescents (N = 1,076) regarding attitudes...

Previous research focused on sexual prejudice has shown that lesbian and gay adolescents are at greater risk of peer harassment victimization than their straight counterparts. Peer such as exclusion, however, may also be related to conventional expectations hold about social environment. This study examined adolescents’ ( N = 1069) attitudes reasoning the exclusion peers based orientation gender nonconformity. Results indicate although participants reported it was more acceptable exclude or...

Purpose – Parents are sometimes perceived as barriers to providing comprehensive and inclusive sexuality education young people. However, little is known about parents’ actual attitudes towards such broad information The purpose of this paper examine two different approaches measuring information, a programme title approach topic-centred approach. Design/methodology/approach Illinois parents adolescents ( n =301) indicated their knowledge programmes 18 sexual health topics via online survey....

Abstract Using an accelerated longitudinal design, we investigated developmental changes in young peoples’ evaluations of sexual harassment (SH) and how own experiences with harassment, their perceptions teacher intervention, as well gender orientation related to judgments. This study documented significant adolescents’ peer‐based SH from grades 7 10. Overall, there was a decrease the extent which youth judged be wrong they progressed through school. Yet, also variability across initial...

This study investigated how social group status and bias are related to adolescents' reasoning about acceptance. Ninth eleventh-grade students ( N = 379) were asked make judgments the inclusion of individuals in school activities based on their peer crowd membership. The results revealed that both participants' targets' reference participation activities. Overall, high members chosen more than low participate Adolescents who identified themselves with groups, however, significantly likely...

SUMMARY Research suggests that school experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth are overwhelmingly negative anti-LGBTQ violence victimization in lead to both acute chronic developmental outcomes for these youth. The counseling psychology profession is uniquely situated address ameliorate environments by providing training support counselors on LGBT prevention education. This article describes a model developed partnership between community-based organization...

Ninth- and 11th-grade students (N = 379) were surveyed regarding their evaluations of excluding someone from a social group solely on the basis his or her reference membership. Individuals evaluated exclusion in ambiguous nonambiguous situations. Judgments reasoning about compared with judgments more prototypically moral situation (denial resources). Overall, participants as less wrong than denial resources used fewer conventional reasons to justify judgments. Participants relied knowledge...

In this study, we investigated the relationships between school context and heterosexual adolescents' social reasoning regarding same-sex sexuality sexual prejudice. One thousand seventy-six adolescents (Female, n=648; Male, n=428) attending two

Abstract Objective and Participants: The authors compared the drinking behaviors, motivations, problems of collegiate bisexual women with those heterosexual (N = 2,788; n 86 women). Methods: Data came from 2003 Student Life Survey, a random population-based survey at large midwestern university. explored hypothesis that would be more likely than to report motivations related stress coping as result sexual identity stigma. Results: They found drank significantly less did women. There were few...

Attitudes toward lesbians and gays vary across national populations, previous research has found relatively more accepting attitudes in the Netherlands as compared to United States. In this study, we beliefs about samples of Dutch American heterosexual adolescents, utilizing survey data from 1,080 adolescents (mean age = 15.86 years) attending two schools 1,391 16.27 eight schools. Findings indicated participants were tolerant gays, after adjusting for gender, age, racial/ethnic minority...

This study investigated the relationship among adolescents’ (n = 621) reports of perpetrating sexual and gender-based harassment their beliefs about whether these behaviors cause harm, are wrong, or prohibited by school policies. Results evidenced that wrongness harm were r

Abstract Very little developmental research has focused on children's and adolescents’ beliefs attitudes regarding sexual orientation gender identity/expression (SOGIE), despite documented evidence of the frequency negative consequences bullying harassment related to SOGIE. Although limited perpetrators these types is beginning emerge, work framed around this concept. In article, I define SOGIE‐based prejudice, outline a multidimensional approach understanding phenomenon, review available...

This study investigated tenth- and twelfth-grade adolescents' ( N = 264) beliefs about homosexuality, their attitudes gay lesbian peers in school, evaluations of the treatment gay, lesbian, gender non-conforming peers. The results revealed differences homosexuality toward school. Further, age-related context were obtained. also difference Finally, provide some evidence that non-conformity sexuality independently interdependently impact others. implications these for educators others...

A diverse group of adolescents (N = 41) from a large city in the Midwestern United States participated focus groups about misogynistic and homophobic language. Our qualitative analysis yielded two major themes. First, participants discussed this language as way to regulate peers' conformity norms related gender sexuality. Second, spoke importance relationship between individuals using determining different intentions. Understanding young people's perceptions these types interactions...