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New White Paper on Prosecution of Child Sexual Abuse: Challenges in Achieving Justice - Wellesley Centers for Women

The white paper from the Justice and Gender-Based Violence Research Initiative offers policy and practice recommendations to achieve justice for victims, families, and communities.

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CEE Animation launches a new rating system to help professionals reach young audiences

13/10/2026 - The system offers filmmakers, distributors and festivals practical guidance on how children and teenagers experience animated films at different ages and stages of their development

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Weekend Texting Screen Time and Incident Nicotine Use in Early #Adolescents: Longitudinal Analysis of the #Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study

Background: #Adolescent nicotine use initiation remains a significant public health concern. While screen-based behaviors have been linked to substance use, few prospective studies have examined specific forms of interactive screen engagement or tested potential psychological mechanisms underlying this association. Objective: This study aimed to examine whether weekend texting screen time was prospectively associated with subsequent nicotine use initiation among early #Adolescents and evaluate whether negative urgency statistically accounted for part of this association. Methods: We analyzed longitudinal data from a large cohort of #Adolescents who were nicotine naive at baseline. Weekend texting screen time (hours) was assessed via self-report. Negative urgency, reflecting impulsive action during negative affect, was measured using the UPPS (Urgency, Premeditation, Perseverance, and Sensation Seeking) impulsivity scale. Incident nicotine use initiation was modeled using Cox proportional hazards regression, adjusting for sex, age, race, ethnicity, and household income. We evaluated whether adjustment for negative urgency attenuated the texting-initiation association and conducted a sensitivity analysis restricted to participants for whom texting assessment, negative urgency assessment, and nicotine use initiation were temporally ordered. Results: Among 5,965 nicotine-naïve #Adolescents followed prospectively, 239 (4%) initiated nicotine use. Greater weekend texting was associated with increased hazard of nicotine use initiation (per hour: hazard ratio [HR]=1.07, 95% CI 1.04‐1.11). A 5-hour increase corresponded to an approximately 30% to 40% higher hazard of initiation. Weekend texting was positively associated with negative urgency (β=0.079;