How are we going to help these girls

[Anonymous]

This article says that more teen girls are contemplating suicide and that many are forced to have sex. What can we do as a community to help girls?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/health/teen-girls-sadness-suicide-violence.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-variants-shadow-lda-diversify-time-cutoff-30&alpha=0.05&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=390232503&impression_id=0298ec38-abda-11ed-a27f-5df14c0ecf0a&index=0&pgtype=Article&pool=pool%2F91fcf81c-4fb0-49ff-bd57-a24647c85ea1®ion=footer&req_id=106031641&shadow_vec_sim=0.27640436023249254&surface=eos-most-popular-story&variant=1_bandit-eng30s-diversify-shadow-lda

[Anonymous]

Get rid of the internet. It was an interesting experiment and seemed like a good idea. Turns out, it's not. So let's pull the plug, turn it off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the internet. It was an interesting experiment and seemed like a good idea. Turns out, it's not. So let's pull the plug, turn it off.

+1 This is so obviously step one, although many will no doubt come in here and defend social media and unlimited screen time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the internet. It was an interesting experiment and seemed like a good idea. Turns out, it's not. So let's pull the plug, turn it off.

It's more a smartphone and social media issue, not the internet as a whole.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the internet. It was an interesting experiment and seemed like a good idea. Turns out, it's not. So let's pull the plug, turn it off.

It's more a smartphone and social media issue, not the internet as a whole.

NP here. I have been saying for years that I wish schools would ban cell phones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the internet. It was an interesting experiment and seemed like a good idea. Turns out, it's not. So let's pull the plug, turn it off.

It's more a smartphone and social media issue, not the internet as a whole.

NP here. I have been saying for years that I wish schools would ban cell phones.

It’s not the school’s fault. It’s the parents who give cell phones to their young kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the internet. It was an interesting experiment and seemed like a good idea. Turns out, it's not. So let's pull the plug, turn it off.

It's more a smartphone and social media issue, not the internet as a whole.

NP here. I have been saying for years that I wish schools would ban cell phones.

It’s not the school’s fault. It’s the parents who give cell phones to their young kids.

What age do you think is appropriate then?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the internet. It was an interesting experiment and seemed like a good idea. Turns out, it's not. So let's pull the plug, turn it off.

It's more a smartphone and social media issue, not the internet as a whole.

NP here. I have been saying for years that I wish schools would ban cell phones.

It’s not the school’s fault. It’s the parents who give cell phones to their young kids.

Agree 100%

Social media is toxic.

For teen’s developing brains, social media is beyond toxic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the internet. It was an interesting experiment and seemed like a good idea. Turns out, it's not. So let's pull the plug, turn it off.

It's more a smartphone and social media issue, not the internet as a whole.

NP here. I have been saying for years that I wish schools would ban cell phones.

It’s not the school’s fault. It’s the parents who give cell phones to their young kids.

What age do you think is appropriate then?

I like the days of car phones. It is important to have access to a phone when driving in case of an accident or car trouble or change of plans while out. But a smart phone at school (where there are dozens of landlines that can be used to call home if plans change) is unnecessary. Not needed while living at home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get rid of the internet. It was an interesting experiment and seemed like a good idea. Turns out, it's not. So let's pull the plug, turn it off.

It's more a smartphone and social media issue, not the internet as a whole.

NP here. I have been saying for years that I wish schools would ban cell phones.

It’s not the school’s fault. It’s the parents who give cell phones to their young kids.

Agree 100%

Social media is toxic.

For teen’s developing brains, social media is beyond toxic.

Social media is not sexually assaulting these girls. That was the most distressing part of the study for me. What is causing that increase? I wish they had asked more questions about that.

[Anonymous]

Their parents need to care first. Need to care more about their child's mental health than their child's "coolness" or "popularity" or whether or not their child considers the parent a "friend." My girls are mad I won't let them have social media. I honestly don't care - that is my job - to make hard decisions they can't.

[Anonymous]

It’s not just the content on social media, it’s the sheer number of hours that people are interacting with screens ever single day. I’m an adult who spends way too much time in this very site and it completely messes with my head, but at least I had the benefit of growing a full brain before staring at a phone all day was even possible. It just boggles my mind how many parents let their kids loose online from very early ages.

[Anonymous]

There is a correlation between this and the proliferation of girls who claim to be LGTBQ, IMO. It’s an effective way to avoid male attention.

[Anonymous]

How odd this comes from the CDC, the government agency that unnecessarily caused the worst isolation in this generation. We now have confirmed it was unnecessary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How odd this comes from the CDC, the government agency that unnecessarily caused the worst isolation in this generation. We now have confirmed it was unnecessary.

Eh, that definitely didn’t help, but things were already going south fast.