Children's Books with Mature & Modern Concepts

Isabelle Merry MA Research

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Lost Lego Pieces

Cargo included:

Toy kits - Divers, Aquazone, Aquanauts, Police, FrightKnights, WildWest, RoboForce TimeCruisers, Outback, Pirates

Spear guns (red and yellow) - 13,000 items

Black octopus - 4,200

Yellow life preserver - 26,600

Diver flippers (in pairs: black, blue, red) - 418,000

Dragons (black and green) - 33,941

Brown ship rigging net - 26,400

Daisy flowers (in fours - white, red, yellow) - 353,264

Scuba and breathing apparatus (grey) - 97,500

Total of 4,756,940 Lego pieces lost overboard in a single container

Estimated 3,178,807 may be light enough to have floated

Source: Beachcombers' Alert, vol 2. No 2 1997

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Mapped: The beaches where Lego washes up

Members of the public are helping a beachcomber map where Lego has been found since millions of pieces were lost in a 1997 container spill.

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Is There a Connection Between Violent Crime and Watching Porn?

There is a common behavior among people who commit heinous crimes—they often have a high interest in porn and a long history with it.

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Subscriber Only: A typically functioning young person frequently viewing porn will not lead to sexual violence

Pornography use is linked to sexual aggression, but only among teenagers predisposed to violence

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Opinion | Does Porn Hurt Children?

Research suggesting that teenagers and pornography are a hazardous mix is far from definitive.

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How Pornography Harms Children: The Advocate's Role

Easy access to online pornography and the potential harm of consistent exposure raise concerns about children’s health and well-being.

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24 Children's Stories That Still Give Us the Creeps

Atlas Obscura readers wrote in about the classic tales that taught them one thing—unease.

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Grandparents' Day - MinervaReads

Sunday October 4th was National Grandparents’ Day. Apparently it was introduced to the UK in 1990 by the charity Age Concern, although I have to admit we’ve never celebrated it in our family. I’d like to think we have grandparents’ day most weeks! There are some wonderful grandparents in children’s literature. Grandpa Joe from Charlie and…Read more →

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So called ‘gay cures’ are dangerous and do not work.

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FactCheck Q&A: How many children are going to gender identity clinics in the UK?

50 children a week are being referred to the UK's main gender identity clinic, yet only around 25 per cent of young children with gender dysphoria go on to be trans adults. FactCheck looks at the figures.

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The internet made trans people visible. It also left them more vulnerable.

This decade has been a double-edged sword for trans people.

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IS GENDER DYSPHORIA SOCIALLY CONTAGIOUS?

by Dianna Kenny, PhD IS GENDER DYSPHORIA SOCIALLY CONTAGIOUS? Dianna Kenny, PhD Introduction The earliest written record from the town of Hamelin in Lower Saxony is from 1384. It states simply, “It…

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Why Is Transgender Identity on the Rise Among Teens?

A new study of social contagion raises important clinical and ethical questions.