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Authorities are recasting young people’s concerns about climate change, Gaza, social justice, family crises, etc., as “mental illness”

Jan 21, 2026Tori Puente

Authorities are recasting young people’s concerns about climate change, Gaza, social justice, family crises, etc., as “mental illness” Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| January 2026 Let’s start with the clueless condescension, because it gets scarier. National Public Radio’s 1A (First Amendment)’s lengthy 12/18 “Navigating modern adolescence” managed to dodge ALL the family, community, economic, and global issues

Social media isn’t driving the teenage “loneliness epidemic”

Jan 6, 2026Tori Puente

Social media isn’t driving the teenage “loneliness epidemic” Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| January 2026 Americans of all ages suffer a “loneliness epidemic,” former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy announced in 2023, fostering health damage rivaling smoking “15 cigarettes a day.” “In recent years, about one-in-two adults in America reported experiencing loneliness,” Murthy lamented. “Across many

Part 3: One more – really bad – emblem of progressive podcasts’ grotesque hate speech toward young people

Dec 19, 2025Tori Puente

Part 3: One more – really bad – emblem of progressive podcasts’ grotesque hate speech toward young people Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| December 2025 On Tuesday, Saager Enjeti, the self-described “conservative” co-host on Tuesday’s Breaking Points podcast, declared that the “really sick” emails from Harvard University’s uber-economics professor Larry Summers showing “no moral standards,” seeking pedophilic

Progressives’ brainless disdain for young people, Part II

Dec 10, 2025Tori Puente

Progressives’ brainless disdain for young people, Part II Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| December 2025 They’re at it again. Consider this my self-therapy. A day after posting my complaint about progressives’ post-election return to trashing the young people who most vigorously support progressive causes, I made the mistake of listening to Bitchuation Room’s Francesca Fiorentini (age 42) and Majority

What Ken Burns’ The American Revolution Gets Wrong: Youth

Dec 5, 2025Tori Puentehistory, Ken Burns, The American Revolution, youth

What Ken Burns’ The American Revolution Gets Wrong: Youth Anthony Bernier, Project Director, YouthFacts.org| December 2025 Ken Burns’ new 12-hour PBS The American Revolution examines the War for Independence. As viewers with formal education, we might question some of Burns’ choices and narrative style. I certainly do. But adding Native Americans, Black Americans, and women

Progressives loved young people after Democrats’ November 4 sweep … for a whole week

Nov 26, 2025Tori Puente

Progressives loved young people after Democrats’ November 4 sweep … for a whole week Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| November 2025 Progressives should thank whatever god(s) they praise that young voters ignore the destructive trashings liberal-left podcasters spew about them day after day. Young voters, including young men, led the November 4 election’s stunning sweep

If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it

Nov 18, 2025Tori Puente

If we really want to deter suicide and self-harm, we should prescribe social media to teenagers, not ban it Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| November 2025 The anti-teen-social-media case keeps falling apart even as it peaks politically. Girls report feeling more “sad or hopeless” (53%) than boys (28%) do, the 2021 and 2023 Centers for Disease

Why do teenaged girls have such low rates of suicide and drug death?

Nov 13, 2025Tori Puente

Why do teenaged girls have such low rates of suicide and drug death? Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| November 2025 Teenaged girls report much more sadness than boys or grownups. Yet girls are vastly safer from suicide and self-inflicted death. What are we missing here? Thirty years ago, sociologist Meda Chesney-Lind deplored the “criminalization of girls’ survival

Ill-considered social-media bans endanger millions of teenage girls whose online connections help them deal with parents’ skyrocketing addictions

Nov 6, 2025Tori Puente

Ill-considered social-media bans endanger millions of teenage girls whose online connections help them deal with parents’ skyrocketing addictions Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| November 2025 Surprising Centers for Disease Control numbers show teenage girls, especially those with drug/alcohol abusing parents, have LOWER rates of suicide and self-harm the MORE they use social media. The fervent

Generation Z is not bringing some “new” terror of social-media-driven “nihilistic violent extremism”

Nov 4, 2025Tori Puente

Generation Z is not bringing some “new” terror of social-media-driven “nihilistic violent extremism” Mike Males, Principal Investigator, YouthFacts.org| November 2025 Today’s much rarer young killers are scarier than yesterday’s larger numbers? You’ve got to be joking. Back in my Sixties Boomer teenhood, Charles Manson and his Beatles-worshipping creepy-crawlies embarked on blood-drenched massacres to ignite a

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