For socialism and communism to succeed, first the family, those first loyalties, must be severed. Looks like it’s working. The problem is that it’s bad for everyone. Even the bureaucrats suffer because the people whose resources they want access to can’t produce any resources.
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.
I get really wary when I read articles like this. Yet another “crisis” that needs to be addressed by government spending or medicating kids, or sending them to therapy. 36% are depressed, then they go to college where 50% of them will be “raped.” Then they’ll join a job market where they won’t get paid “what they are worth.” And on and on.
Our entire culture is a factory for manufacturing mental illness and unhappiness.
(1) Today's economic behavior considers children a poor investment for parents.
(2) Public school is depressive. Now I'll read to see what the article says.
Dems, schools, parents, and media are saying daily (hourly)
* we’re doomed
* republicans are destroying the future for our kids (global warming is destructive, US debt is not)
* there’s no solution except destroying conservatives (then Rs win congress and WH)
* you have no responsibility
* you have no ability to determine your future
* you can’t stand up to, or fight bullies. They will destroy you unless some group of people you don’t know stops them (and the group fails)
* if you’re a girl: republicans want to destroy women’s health (nevermind “women’s health” mean abortion, that still scares girls who won’t get pregnant)
* if your black: republicans want legalize racism (nevermind “racism” is meaningless, it still scares many kids who will never experience it in any harmful form)
And they build an additional filter bubble around themselves and avoid being exposed to anything else. How could anyone in that position not be depressed and suffering anxiety? Most kids actually aren’t having the issues, but they aren’t interesting so studies focus on the ones who the media have scared out of their minds with biased reporting. But the focus is the kids’ reactions, not the cause because the cause is not politically correct.
I can’t imagine social media being looked back at in 100 years as being a good thing for society. Even if the divorce rate and single mom rate was 1940 levels or whatever.
Freegards
Of course our kids are sad. They’re being raised by a bunch of strangers. Our children spend their entire day with people who consider them just “a job.”
Destroy the family structure, the basic bed rock of stability in any nation, plus denigrate, confuse, reject, and mock traditional, God ordained morality and you destroy the soul of the individual and that nation - no meaning, no hope, no reason to live or die for something - John Lennon’s utopian anthem, “Imagine” espoused that very thing.
And certainly they have no extending family to draw on.
Even though we were overseas four years out of five when we got back stateside my brother and I were quickly folded back into the extended family. We were part of the group and while they might, and did, pick on us no outsider had better try.
The natural family has a mom and dad and somewhere between five to ten siblings. There should also be some cousins, aunts and uncles in the mix. Because sometimes you need an adult to talk to that is not your parent.
New Zepplin song “Hey LGBT Maggots, leaves those kids alone!”
Yep, they’ve all been raised in daycare.
I said it just a few weeks ago. In daycare they can adequetely feed an infant but if his mother is holding him she is most likely looking at him with love and the provider is just doing a job.
2) American exceptionalism no longer taught in schools AND ridiculed by pop culture=kids don't realize how blessed they are to be American.
3) Anti-American messages in movies, music, professional sports, and video games, like the just released (or soon to be released) Far Cry 5. Of course they feel like crap, because as the Leftists tell them, America sucks and the rest of the world is so great and happy (despite the female genital mutilation, Ebola, and all that other stuff they never talk about).
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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.
All the more reason to Make America Great Again!
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.
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.
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
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!!!!!!