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Teen Girl Suicide is Rising: What Parents Can Do to Stop It
The data is clear: social media is fueling a crisis of despair among our teen girls. We are losing our children to a digital world that demands their identity and offers only loneliness in return. Parents, it is time to take back the authority God gave you.
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The Smartphone Generation
Jean Twenge is a researcher who has looked at data on over 11 million youth as part of a new generational study. The millennial generation is timing out as a new, unnamed generation appears. These young people could be called the smartphone generation born around 2000. Today’s 18 year olds are the first to grow up spending time much differently than generations before them, due in large part, to the rise of the iPhone.
Twenge has called them iGen. In fact, she has written a book based upon her study of today’s youth titled: “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids …
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