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...great time to be an American teenager. Adults slavishly follow teen trends-people wear ratty jeans to work; everyone checks YouTube all day; people in their 30s (OK, men in their 30s) play video games without embarrassment...
...Psychologists are also frequent doomsayers about teens-none more so than Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. In his new book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen (see my review from the magazine this week), Epstein argues that "many American teens are indeed in rough shape." He offers a long list of examples of what he calls "teen turmoil," everything from gang membership to drug use-all encouraged, he believes, by a pernicious teen culture that glorifies violence and substance abuse. "Attractive, trendy young people are frequently high or drunk in movies like...
...statistics look encouraging, but you're missing the larger picture. I'm guessing-and please correct me if I'm wrong-that you don't have much regular contact with parents or teens. I've been having such contact fairly regularly for a very long time (Epstein is the father of four). It's rare for a parent of an American teen to feel calm about the teen years, and many parents are deeply traumatized...
...year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath of the war. Esma (Mirjana Karanovic), one of the tens of thousands of rape victims from the Bosnian war, is trying to make ends meet in the eponymous suburb of Sarajevo, with her pre-teen daughter Sara (Luna Mijovic). Zbanic’s clear storytelling makes the film accessible to a global audience; you do not need to know about shaheeds or Bosnian war camps to empathize with the middle-aged mother working night shifts at a seedy club in order to support her daughter. Zbanic believes...
...Days that Jennifer Mee, a St. Petersburg, Fla., teen, suffered from constant hiccuping that stopped only when she slept...