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The most consequential social change of the past several decades is not the dawn of social media but changing family structure, and it turns out that adolescent depression and suicide are closely linked with divorce and single parenting. Teens who live with a single parent have twice the rate of suicide attempts as those who live with both parents.

Somebody once wrote about things you aren’t allowed to talk about in America. I believe this is one such issue. We aren’t allowed to talk about how we have normalized out of wedlock birth and single motherhood.

Since the “mental health” community tends to be liberal, I expect that they will not discuss the family structure aspect of the problems they are reporting on here.

Since saying anything about single motherhood is regarded as an attack on single mothers, per liberal criteria, instead, a key factor in the problems of these youths will simply be ignored, as they report on other aspects of this problem instead.

Bravo! On a recent post, that lambasted Arianna Grande for pushing deparvity on young girls, I said the degradation in out of wedlock birth statistics, divorce rates, and the like (including suicide), have more to do with selfish parents and spouses than Madonna, Katy Perry, and Arianna Grande. Though those women may share some blame, it is easier to bash the tarts because they aren't our neighbors, friends, or family members...they are soft targets.

This is hard work, and it has been for a long time. Jesus himself said "Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye."

Try telling one's cousin Bob on his 3rd wife that maybe his son Johnny is in rehab again because Bob is a narcissistic jackwagon ...THAT is hard but effective work, but we don't seem to do that much anymore. Maybe we should.

Our family is intact, but my kids suffer from it. My son is rrally a mess.

However, depression and bipolar run in my family. My mom was bipolar, and my grandmother had some issues too, but I’m not know those details.