Teens benefit from “risky, unsupervised” opportunities to grow, social-media nannies declare. Why, then, aren't they using their attention-getting platforms to advance those ends?
Funny... they don't ask the parents whether they use alcohol or cannabis themselves, or have had drug/alcohol problems. Since they had to obtain parents' approval for their kids to participate, this whole thing looks bogus.
When adulterated so-called "adults" begin to genuinely grow up and concern themselves with only controlling themselves and then extending that freedom to their children, we will have a more responsibly free world.
Of course, the panic-peddlers would probably hawk questionable studies such as this one. But these kinds of survey results are correlational, not causal, and participants have reason to be less than honest on such surveys.
Funny... they don't ask the parents whether they use alcohol or cannabis themselves, or have had drug/alcohol problems. Since they had to obtain parents' approval for their kids to participate, this whole thing looks bogus.
Great points here! The nannying of teenagers has always baffled me! The crime statistics were really powerful in this post. Thanks Mike!
Good points as usual Mike, thanks.
When adulterated so-called "adults" begin to genuinely grow up and concern themselves with only controlling themselves and then extending that freedom to their children, we will have a more responsibly free world.
Amen!
Of course, the panic-peddlers would probably hawk questionable studies such as this one. But these kinds of survey results are correlational, not causal, and participants have reason to be less than honest on such surveys.
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1209584/full
Wow, not even Adolf Giuliani himself had a youth curfew in NYC, the city that never sleeps!
Well said as usual, Mike! The problems faced by young people today are essentially "iatrogenic" in that regard.