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The contradictions in teenagers’ mental health – yes, this is different
Teens from healthy families who ARE depressed… teens from severely troubled families who AREN’T depressed… what can we learn from the “weirdos”?
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The San Francisco Chronicle publishes my op-ed on teens and social media
Why the latest CDC teen mental health report is a politically inconvenient bombshell for crusading California pols
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Social media-blamers’ bad logic and worse non-science
Their nonsense would be ignored if adult rights were at stake. Teenagers, unfortunately, are always easy to beat up on.
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What IS making teenagers more depressed? Part 3.
Our most massive, comprehensive surveys and analyses explain less than one-third of teens’ poor mental health. What explains the rest?
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So … what IS making teens more depressed?
We’re learning, slowly, after wasting so much time on authorities’ pointless obsession with social media. We still need to ask better questions.
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And now… a positive word about families
Do teens from healthy families have a social media problem?
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Australia’s and other countries’ ill-advised crusades to ban teens under age 16 from social media jeopardize teens’ safety
Teens violently and emotionally abused by parents and adults use social media much more than non-abused teens. Social media bans are state-inflicted…
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November 2024

Teenagers use the internet in much healthier ways than social-mediaphobes
Unlike Jonathan Haidt’s and colleagues’ wildly embellished paranoia toward the screen world, teens’ more practical views don’t grant social media…
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Are teenagers just lying when they report on CDC surveys that many parents and household grownups are severely troubled and abusive?
The obsession with blaming social media is a dangerous distraction. Authorities should refocus on the real causes of depression.
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Researchers agree on a solid consensus in the great “meta-analysis” quarrel over whether social media affects teenagers’ mental health
It doesn't.
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82% of cyberbullied teens are also abused by household grownups… two-thirds of girls who self-harm had violent parents… 80% of teens with…
Authorities’ destructive obsession with smartphones and social media prevents them from confronting vital interconnections the CDC’s survey shows really…
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The wildly overhyped “teen/social media” frenzy is preventing attention to crucial dangers that really do affect teenagers’ mental health
Parents’ and family troubles drive teens’ mental health, followed by personal and school issues. Social media, barely a blip, serves as an easy…
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