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The Kids Are Not All Right
Townhall.com ^ | June 2, 2017 | Mona Charen

Posted on 06/02/2017 7:59:13 AM PDT by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin
More than 36 percent of teenage girls in America are depressed or have suffered a recent major depressive episode ...

Technology. Technology keeps them from sleeping, which trashes their health, especially during puberty. Technology connects them to social media, which a giant negative feedback loop and echo chamber from which they never get a break.

I'm sure there are other factors, but these explain a lot.

21 posted on 06/02/2017 10:42:02 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is no catastrophe from which someone does not benefit." ~Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: DoodleBob

Was thinking the same thing. These teens are being raised by selfish immature people. That makes any child/teen feel like their life is unstable and unbalanced. The “adults” in their lives don’t behave like adults by setting examples of working thru hardships ( with spouses, jobs, etc) so they have no role model for how to handle the difficulties of life.

In the old days parents would sacrifice to raise their children right( which did not mean giving them everything they wanted). Would get up on Sunday mornings , get dressed neatly and respectfully, go to church, listen to a sermon explaining how God wanted them to believe and act, come home for a nice meal together as a family to connect and talk, and try to follow those rules throughout the week. Now the single mom or deadbeat dad may be too hung over to even get up and make breakfast for the kids.
Very sad


22 posted on 06/02/2017 10:58:06 AM PDT by boxlunch (Pray for Donald Trump and his administration! Disband the DMC! (Democrat Media Complex).)
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To: wku man

I was thinking more along these lines:

When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighborhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole damn street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat
Now the neighborhood’s cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives
Chances thrown
Nothing’s free
Longing for what used to be
Still it’s hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams

Do you know it?


23 posted on 06/02/2017 11:41:51 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...".)
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To: Kaslin

All the more reason to Make America Great Again!


24 posted on 06/02/2017 11:46:49 AM PDT by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: Kaslin
Teenagers are depressed??? Have anyone interviewed tens of conservatives who are homeschooled? They didn't interview ConservaTeen or his friends or any of our kids and their friends. I think at this time, the only​ kid depressed is our toddler, who just woke up from his nap and he needs a diaper change. 😀 But unlike liberals, he'll outgrow his 'dependency'. 😀
25 posted on 06/02/2017 11:57:58 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: wku man

Dang Yes- had zepplin on the mind lol- thanks for the correction


26 posted on 06/02/2017 12:20:39 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: ClearCase_guy

The dictatorship of the self and its supposed rights is eating its own.


27 posted on 06/02/2017 12:23:30 PM PDT by Mmmike
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To: Tax-chick

Not to get too much like Gen Jack D. Ripper, but I’ve heard nasty stories about widespread introduction of soy into young people’s diets and the attendant physical accelerated growth. If girls and young women are maturing physically way faster than their minds, I can’t fathom the attendant mental problems. Throw absentee/narcissistic parents on top of that (see my comment earlier in this thread), and it’s a recipe for disaster.


28 posted on 06/02/2017 12:23:50 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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To: gspurlock

Actually that’s second. First is to vilify God and remove any mention of Him - good is evil and evil is bad. The rest is easy after that. It’s the same formula the devil has been using over and over since the garden. Now he’s on his last desperate chance before the Day of the Lord arrives here soon.


29 posted on 06/02/2017 12:29:42 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: Kaslin

People are sold a bill of goods that says that if they are not happy, there must be something wrong with them, and it just exacerbates the problem.

Me. I adhere to Frank Zappa’s advice.....”Don’t expect friends, don’t expect fun, don’t expect a good life, don’t expect anything and if you get something, it’s a bonus.”

It works for me.


30 posted on 06/02/2017 12:32:41 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Kaslin

During one of the many training sessions on PTSD I sat through before I retired they mentioned six risk factors for developing PTSD. One was a traumatic childhood, I asked the instructor could a divorce be be considered traumatic, after much avoidance he finally admitted yes. This led to several Soldiers in the room doing the “not my child” dance.

I have also seen this personally with friends I grew up with. One was a straight A student until his parents divorced in middle school. He drank himself to death at the age of 42.


31 posted on 06/02/2017 12:41:15 PM PDT by OIFVeteran
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To: Kaslin
Something is robbing young people of happiness and well-being

Not hard to figure out. The children have been deceived by the cultural polluters and followers of the dark one.

1 John 3:7 Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous

32 posted on 06/02/2017 1:02:33 PM PDT by Buffalo Bob
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To: 3boysdad

Good point! I stand corrected.


33 posted on 06/02/2017 1:04:32 PM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Kaslin

Of course they are depressed! Have you seen what passes for music these days!

If I wouldn’t have had Van Halen I would have eaten a bullet myself.

Their culture SUCKS!!!!!!


34 posted on 06/02/2017 1:12:09 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: gspurlock

My apologies if I came across as being “corrective”. I really was only adding more commentary to yours. I just noticed that I messed mine up, it should be “good is evil and evil is good” not “evil is bad”! Duh! LOL!


35 posted on 06/02/2017 1:21:19 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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LOL - no need to apologize! You are absolutely correct. I should have said that it is necessary to sever family ties in order to impose socialism and/or communish, not that it was the first order of business. However, looking at our educational history, it looks like Christianity and families have been under assault about the same time. God does come first though ;)


36 posted on 06/02/2017 1:25:31 PM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Tax-chick

This social media stuff changes the way people think in my opinion.

Also the ubiquitous and pervasive nature of porn in this era where every phone is a video player/recorder hooked up to the internet probably isn’t too good for society.

Freegards


37 posted on 06/02/2017 1:42:24 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: gspurlock

Leftists will be looking at this and doubling down on stupid by calling for more feminism now.


38 posted on 06/02/2017 5:15:56 PM PDT by OldNewYork (Operation Wetback II, now with computers)
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To: D_Idaho
Oh yeah...The Offspring. Good song, but repetitive.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

39 posted on 06/02/2017 9:14:08 PM PDT by wku man (Just One Gun, the latest from 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uFqQenIU4)
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To: Bob434
No big deal, bro...Zeppelin and Floyd are two of my all-time favorite bands. Should be on everyone's Top 10 list, IMNSHO.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

40 posted on 06/02/2017 9:21:52 PM PDT by wku man (Just One Gun, the latest from 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uFqQenIU4)
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