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The Boy Scouts of America announces the renaming of the organization to Scouting America on February 8, 2025, in an effort to make girls feel more welcome.
2024-05-7

The Boy Scouts of America file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the result of multiple sex abuse lawsuits.
2020-02-18

The Boy Scouts of America announces that girls may join as full members of the Cub Scouts beginning in 2018. Young women may join as full members of the Boy Scouts and earn the highest rank of Eagle Scout beginning in 2019.
2017-10-11

Robert Gates, the President of the Boy Scouts of America, calls on the movement to end the ban on gay adult leaders and says the movement will no longer revoke the charters of chapters that accept gay male leaders.
2015-05-21

The Boy Scouts of America release documents containing over 15,000 pages relating to allegations of sexual abuse by over 1200 scout leaders between 1965-1985.[https:--www.nytimes.com-2012-10-19-us-boy-scout-documents-reveal-decades-of-sexual-abuse.html?pagewanted=all "(New York Times)"]
2012-10-18

The Boy Scouts of America are ordered to pay $18.5 million in damages following the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old boy.
2010-04-23