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The Youth Rebellion Is Growing
Seven Gen Z Leaders Working to Reduce the Harms Caused by the Phone-Based Childhood
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
22
On The Degrading Effects of Life Online
How social media makes us worse people
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Jon Haidt
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Freya India
89
​​​​​Keeping Our Kids Safe Online​​
Reflections from a bereaved mother
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Kristin Bride
26
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Why the Mental Health of Liberal Girls Sank First and Fastest
 • Jon Haidt
454
Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence.
 • Jon Haidt
309
A Time We Never Knew
 • Freya India
150
Kids Who Get Smartphones Earlier Become Adults With Worse Mental Health
 • Jon Haidt and Zach Rausch
120
Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus
 • Jon Haidt
292
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness
 • Jon Haidt
175

The International Mental Health Crisis

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The Girls Are Not Alright: Responses to Three Claims that the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Exaggerated
Why changes in stigma and self-reporting procedures cannot explain the international decline of adolescent girls’ mental health.
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Zach Rausch
65
The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International Part 4: Europe
Why girls from wealthy, secular, and individualistic nations were hit hardest.
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Zach Rausch
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Thomas Potrebny
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Jon Haidt
55
The Youth Mental Health Crisis is International, Unless You Rely on a Flawed International Dataset (The GBD)
Researchers need to stop using the Global Burden of Disease study when analyzing mental health trends
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Zach Rausch
31
Suicide Rates Are up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls
It’s not just anxiety, depression, and self-harm.
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Zach Rausch
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Jon Haidt
108
The Teen Mental Illness Epidemic is International, Part 2: The Nordic Nations
For Teens, Scandinavia is No Longer The Happiest Place On Earth.
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Jon Haidt
 and 
Zach Rausch
82

The Case Against The Phone-Based Childhood

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The Youth Rebellion Is Growing
Seven Gen Z Leaders Working to Reduce the Harms Caused by the Phone-Based Childhood
 • 
Zach Rausch
 and 
Jon Haidt
22
On The Degrading Effects of Life Online
How social media makes us worse people
 • 
Jon Haidt
 and 
Freya India
89
​​​​​Keeping Our Kids Safe Online​​
Reflections from a bereaved mother
 • 
Kristin Bride
26
How To Reduce the Sexual Solicitation of Teens on Instagram
Suggestions from Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar, which could have been implemented long ago
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Arturo Béjar
60
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness
Two major problems with a review in Nature
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Jon Haidt
175

The Case for Independence, Free Play, and Responsibility in the Real World

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Why Kids Need Summer Camp
A 160-year-old solution to a modern mental health crisis
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Steve Baskin
45
Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play
And why adults’ fears put them at risk
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Mariana Brussoni
94
Good News For Anxious Kids (And Parents)
A simple homework project can make your child more ready to face the world.
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Lenore Skenazy
32
Play Deprivation Is A Major Cause of the Teen Mental Health Crisis
Allowing more unsupervised free play is among the most powerful and least expensive ways to bring down rates of mental illness
 • 
Jon Haidt
 and 
Peter Gray
145

Voices of Gen Z

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The Youth Rebellion Is Growing
Seven Gen Z Leaders Working to Reduce the Harms Caused by the Phone-Based Childhood
 • 
Zach Rausch
 and 
Jon Haidt
22
A Time We Never Knew
"Phones? No. We had each other."
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Freya India
150
Algorithms Hijacked My Generation. I Fear For Gen Alpha.
Freya India explains how algorithms act as conveyor belts, transporting girls to dark and extreme places
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Freya India
 and 
Jon Haidt
129
Do you know where your kids go every day?
A Zoomer explains her generation’s malaise to older generations
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Rikki Schlott
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Jon Haidt
107
Do the Kids Think They’re Alright?
It’s hard to find members of Gen Z who think their phone-based childhoods benefitted their generation
 • 
Eli George
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Jon Haidt
134

What Parents Can Do Now

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The Revolution Has Begun in the UK
75,000 UK parents have come together to give their kids a smartphone-free childhood
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daisy greenwell
104
How to Delay the Age at Which Kids Get Smartphones
A smartphone-free childhood is easier than you think.
 • 
Melanie Hempe
98
Why Children Need Risk, Fear, and Excitement in Play
And why adults’ fears put them at risk
 • 
Mariana Brussoni
94
Good News For Anxious Kids (And Parents)
A simple homework project can make your child more ready to face the world.
 • 
Lenore Skenazy
32

Responses to Skeptics

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Changes in Parents’ Mental Health Did Not Drive the Adolescent Mental Health Crisis
Jean Twenge rebuts another skeptical argument
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Jean M. Twenge
56
Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged
It’s time to update statements about age and suicide
 • 
Jean M. Twenge
55
The Girls Are Not Alright: Responses to Three Claims that the Youth Mental Health Crisis Is Exaggerated
Why changes in stigma and self-reporting procedures cannot explain the international decline of adolescent girls’ mental health.
 • 
Zach Rausch
65
Yes, Social Media Really Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage Mental Illness
Two major problems with a review in Nature
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Jon Haidt
175
Is Economic Deprivation the Real Cause of The Adolescent Mental Health Crisis?
Jean Twenge responds to the Nature review of The Anxious Generation
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Jean M. Twenge
59
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