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​​​​​Keeping Our Kids Safe Online​​
Reflections from a bereaved mother
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Kristin Bride
20
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
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

April 2024

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
100
Suicide Rates Are Now Higher Among Young Adults Than the Middle-Aged
It’s time to update statements about age and suicide
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Jean M. Twenge
54
A Time We Never Knew
"Phones? No. We had each other."
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Freya India
147
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
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
173
How to Delay the Age at Which Kids Get Smartphones
A smartphone-free childhood is easier than you think.
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Melanie Hempe
98
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
58

March 2024

It’s Time To Free The Anxious Generation
The book comes out today. By the end of 2025, we will roll back the phone-based childhood.
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Jon Haidt
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Zach Rausch
77
Why Kids Need Summer Camp
A 160-year-old solution to a modern mental health crisis
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Steve Baskin
45
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