Girls, Social Media, and Suicide
New research, reported in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, is telling us that as teens use of social media has grown over the last ten years, so too has the suicide rate among young people. Suicide is now the…
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American Girl Dolls and Same Sex Marriage
Little girls love the American Girl line of dolls. My two adult daughters still have their American Girl dolls from their childhood, and my grand daughters are now enjoying the dolls and all their accessories. I’ve known a couple of…
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Human Dignity
There’s a big difference between seeing yourself as a human being instilled with dignity, and seeing yourself as an object. Sadly, the world of advertising is pounding our kids with a non-stop deluge of images that support a self-understanding that’s…
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Transgender Regrets
In today’s rapidly changing youth culture landscape, more and parents are being blind-sided by children who announce that they want to transition from their biological gender to the opposite gender. Known as gender-reassignment that’s accomplished through hormone treatments and radical…
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Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria
I recently read Abigail Shrier’s book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters. It’s a book I highly recommend. In the book, Shrier describes the current social contagion sweeping through the population of adolescent and pre-adolescent girls that’s been…
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