ICYMI – October 24, 2012
If you are like me you try to read as many articles, blogs and books as possible but just cannot catch all of them. “In Case You Missed It” is my way of pointing out a few “reads” that I think are too good to miss.
New survey: 3.4% of U.S. adults are LGBT – Sharon Jayson (USA Today, Friday, October 19, 2012)
What’s being touted as the largest study ever aimed at counting the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population finds that 3.4% of adults across the USA identify as being part of the LGBT community.
Based on interviews with more than 121,000 individuals, the Gallup survey released Thursday shakes up some stereotypes: LGBT identity is highest among those who are younger, non-white and less educated.
“It helps to counter what I think are some inappropriate stereotypes of the LGBT community,” says the report’s lead author, demographer Gary Gates of the Williams Institute at the University of California-Los Angeles. “If you spend a lot of time watching network television, you would think most LGBT people are rich white men who live in big cities. These data suggest the LGBT community reflects more of the diversity in the U.S. population.”
Screen Time & Kids (Source: Journal of Pediatrics)
2 hours is the recommended maximum screen time per day. Today, children between ages 8 and 18 spends:
- 4.5 hours watching TV
- 1.5 hours on a computer
- 1 hour playing video games
