Americans are broadly comfortable with the use of in-vitro fertilization, or IVF, with 82% saying it is morally acceptable and 10% saying it is morally wrong. However, they are more divided about destroying frozen human embryos created by in-vitro fertilization, with 49% believing it is moral to do so and 43% disagreeing. (Jones, Gallup)
Read MoreResearchers surveyed pupils at five schools in London, the East Midlands and the South West and found that 18.7 per cent showed signs of problematic smartphone use (PSU) – which included having difficulty concentrating in class, or feeling panicky without their device. (Knapton, The Telegraph)
Read MoreThe decision to forgo having children is most likely not a sign that Americans are becoming more hedonistic, they say. Rather, it indicates that larger societal factors — such as rising child care costs, increasingly expensive housing and slipping optimism about the future — have made it feel more untenable to raise children in the United States. (Rosenbluth, The New York Times)
Read MoreThe U.S. has never had a national standard for sex education. States and local school boards make requirements for the education that K-12 students receive about sex and their bodies. (McKay, NPR)
Read MoreThousands of eateries along a route that an estimated 30 million Hindu pilgrims are traveling this week have come under pressure to display the names of their owners and staff to help customers avoid certain food and beverage outlets. Devotees of Lord Shiva walk over 60 miles to collect water from the Ganges River and bring it home as an offering. (Sharma, Religion News Service)
Read MoreIsrael had promised to kill Haniyeh and Hamas’s other leaders after the group conducted the October 7 attack on Israel that killed more than 1,100 people, in the biggest single-day loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust. (Al-Atrush, The Times UK)
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