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Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?
townhall.com ^ | January 21, 2020 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 01/21/2020 2:10:45 PM PST by Kaslin

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To: Kaslin

Quite simple! As God is removed and being Christian they become chastised when their trying to fit in, you’re hopeless. How exactly are you happy when your hopeless?


21 posted on 01/21/2020 2:28:54 PM PST by diverteach (If I find liberals in heaven after my death.....I WILL BE PISSED!)
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To: Kaslin

Absence of belief in God.


22 posted on 01/21/2020 2:29:18 PM PST by paterfamilias
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To: Kaslin

They think happiness can be had by what is on the other side of a screen.


23 posted on 01/21/2020 2:30:18 PM PST by skinndogNN
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To: thoughtomator

bttt


24 posted on 01/21/2020 2:30:23 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

Send these numbskulls back to 1520 and let them see. 1820. They live in the time of greatest ease and leisure in human history and still they complain. Ooh, dat evil capitalism. Producing poor people who are fat and have iPhones. It’s sad, though, because they’re iPhone 7s and not 11s.


25 posted on 01/21/2020 2:31:51 PM PST by Rastus
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To: Kaslin

I’m very happy ! And young - 50 !

Hee hee


26 posted on 01/21/2020 2:35:09 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Kaslin

Though people have more money, better health care, better health, better housing and more education, and live longer than at any time in history, they — especially young people — are unhappier than at any time since data collection began.

Why has this happened?

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Democrats and liberals.


27 posted on 01/21/2020 2:35:10 PM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: DoughtyOne

Don’t forget the coronavirus. That’s going to kill us all too.


28 posted on 01/21/2020 2:38:29 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: stanne

BINGO. Children abandoned by their mothers are more often suicidal. It’s really sad to see mothers chatting about their desperate small children trying to keep them from leaving every day. How cold the mothers are is what strikes me.


29 posted on 01/21/2020 2:39:03 PM PST by Varda
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To: Kaslin

Young people are told that there are too many people on the planet. A young woman has no hope of finding a trustworthy young man who will take care of her if she wants children. A young man has no hope of finding a woman who doesn’t resent him for some reason. They are taught that capitalism is cruel and that religions have caused more wars than all other causes. I could go on, but basically it gets hard to work up a smile when you have a head full of bad news and no faith to cut through it.


30 posted on 01/21/2020 2:41:52 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

That reminds me of how many things were going to before. Other diseases were sure to do it, according to some folks.

Hype...


31 posted on 01/21/2020 2:41:59 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Leftistist media and particularly CNN NEWS should come with a ten day supply of Cipro.)
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To: Kaslin

In America between 1946 and 2006, the suicide rate quadrupled for males ages 15 to 24 and doubled for females the same age.

— In 1950, the suicide rate per 100,000 Americans was 11.4. In 2017, it was 14.

First it is using two different date ranges. 2006 and 2017 are significantly different data points. I suspect that although suicide rates may have increased between 1950 and 2006/2017, that there were probably a lot of suicides not reported as such back in the 1940/50s.


32 posted on 01/21/2020 2:44:23 PM PST by Steven Scharf
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To: Kaslin

My youngest daughter was 19 when we lost her to suicide. She had a history of drug use and I believe that contributed greatly.


33 posted on 01/21/2020 2:44:49 PM PST by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: Kaslin

Because our educators tell them they are.


34 posted on 01/21/2020 2:47:08 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: Kaslin

Democrats and other flavors of leftists, preaching hate for themselves. Running down who you are. Telling you how you must feel guilty and bad.
Piss on all of them.


35 posted on 01/21/2020 2:48:23 PM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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NEA, single parent or no parent homes, poor parenting...no work ethic, drugs, casual sex, video games, greatly reduced outdoor activity, social media, participation trophies, lgbtqrsp agendas pushed onto them, too much given to them for no work in all households, denigration of military service, grade inflation, loss of spiritualism, academia-financial extortion complex, leftist propaganda from aoc, Bernie, and all the other liberals—->everything for free, and etc...imo...


36 posted on 01/21/2020 2:48:38 PM PST by TnTnTn
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To: Kaslin

Many are raised by LIB loser parents.

Many are “educated” by LIB loser “educators”.

Many believe what the leftist LIB losers tell them about the world...and their potential.

Many are brainwashed by the “climate change” anti-science idiocy.

Many believe either taking RX drugs or illicit drugs is the answer.

Many have no moral and/or religious sense.

Many are perpetually weak.


37 posted on 01/21/2020 2:57:16 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: Varda

Children abandoned by their mothers suffer unresolved grief in a majority of cases I would guess.

Anyone who thinks leaving a baby with anyone but their mothers or fathers for any length of time and on a regular basis is not abandonment needs to re think.

This country is suffering over it and permanently.


38 posted on 01/21/2020 2:58:48 PM PST by stanne
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To: Kaslin
Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?

We've taught them to be?

24/7/365 drumbeat of "You deserve this" from media, and I do NOT have it; would make even ME 'unhappy'!!

39 posted on 01/21/2020 3:01:06 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: married21

Available abortion allows males to have unprotected sex without any need for romance, commitment or financial responsibility. Why marry?


40 posted on 01/21/2020 3:01:10 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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