And in spite of that, girls are increasingly outcompeting boys and turning into future leaders.
Data from rural Placer County, California, mirrors a larger national trend that shows fewer teen pregnancies, reduced youth crime rates, and higher educational attainment.
Politicians and media are in their latest wave of ascribing young people鈥檚 mental health problems to anything but their real source: dysfunctional adults.
Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans鈥� blame is misplaced.
With one political party standing in support of a violent insurrection, we need better solutions than just 鈥渞econciliation.鈥�
Older generations have generally favored 鈥渘owism,鈥� which privileges short-term well-being at the expense of long-term environmental and societal sustainability. And today鈥檚 youth are done with it.
Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, politicians from both parties are scapegoating youth鈥攋ust as they鈥檝e done before with crime and drugs.
Young voters broke overwhelmingly for Bernie Sanders in the primary. Now Joe Biden has to earn their votes.
Frustrated with a lack of process on curbing climate change, young activists are taking matters into their own hands.
While much attention on the rising suicide rate focuses on youth, data shows that it's actually working-age adults who are being hit hardest.
While young people tend to vote for more progressive candidates, the policies they support are necessary for everyone鈥檚 survival.
And it offers a blueprint for reforming other districts that suffer from overpolicing.
White Americans need immigrants and diversity. That鈥檚 not do-gooder talk. It鈥檚 math.
Election night鈥檚 most surprising Democratic victory defies the trend of a growing urban-rural chasm.
Trump鈥檚 White supporters鈥攏ot immigrants鈥攁re bringing lethal drugs, violence, and crime.
Schools are the sites of fewer than 3 percent of students鈥� gun homicides; the other 97 percent occur somewhere other than school.
A dramatic 25-year reduction in gun violence among youth puts high schoolers in a unique position to influence debate.
To have an honest, nonpartisan discussion about gun violence, we must look at what happened in New York, California, and Texas.
Younger people consistently see human rights鈥攔acial, immigrant, gender, LGBT鈥攁s important and uncontroversial.
In recent years, increasing the power and independence of young women has brought dramatic decreases in pregnancies and sexual abuses.
More compassionate drug policy reforms in California have resulted in a drug death rate 40 percent below the national average.
While young and non-White people are perceived as more dangerous, middle-aged White people have the highest rates of gun ownership and gun deaths.
One of the Affordable Care Act鈥檚 fatal flaws enables Republican sabotage. But to lay the groundwork for change, progressives will have to resist powerful senior lobbies.
Tens of millions of Americans鈥攎any aging and white鈥攁re willing to sabotage young people rather than to accept racial diversity.
New data on violent deaths show that all people are safer living in places with high diversity鈥攂ut especially White people.
Americans under 25 are bringing a new era of tolerance, education, and vastly improved behaviors while older folks are acting worse. That isn鈥檛 starry-eyed idealism. It鈥檚 hard numbers.