Authored by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,
The kids are not okay, and it is time for us to face the truth.
As long as I have been writing, surveys have shown that the mental health of our young people has been steadily getting worse. But now we are learning that things really took an enormous turn for the worse during the pandemic. As you will see below, one expert is warning that the number of kids that are dealing with mental health issues “has increased exponentially since the pandemic”.
The facts that I am about to share with you are likely to make you very angry.
Our system does not work, and millions upon millions of young people are having their lives ruined as a result. The following are 13 numbers that show how dramatically we have failed America’s children…
#1 One recent survey found that 40 percent of U.S. parents “worry their children struggle with anxiety or depression”.
#2 During the pandemic, suicide became the second leading cause of death for U.S. children between the ages of 10 and 14.
#3 Suicide is also the second leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 15 and 24.
#4 According to a recent Pew Research Center poll, 46 percent of U.S. kids between the ages of 13 and 17 have experienced cyberbullying.
#5 40 percent of U.S. high school students “felt so sad or hopeless” in 2021 that “they were unable to do their regular activities”.
#6 According to the CDC, “more than 95% of children and adolescents in the U.S. spend much of their daily lives in school”.
#7 At 23 schools in Baltimore, not one single student is proficient in math.
#8 At 30 schools in Illinois, not one single student can read at grade level.
#9 At 53 schools in Illinois, not one single student can do math at grade level.
#10 According to the CDC, nearly 20 percent of all adolescent female students experienced sexual violence in 2021.
#11 According to the CDC, nearly 60 percent of all adolescent female students “experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” in 2021.
#12 According to the CDC, nearly 25 percent of all adolescent female students “made a suicide plan” in 2021.
#13 The proportion of adolescent female students that actually attempted suicide in 2021 was 60 percent higher than a decade ago.
There is nothing “normal” about these numbers.
The mental health of our young people has been declining for years, and a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics is telling us that the number of kids and adolescents dealing with mental health issues “has increased exponentially since the pandemic”…
“I would say over the last 10 years, since I’ve been practicing as a general pediatrician, I have seen a shift both in the amount of patients and of all ages dealing with anxiety and depression. And their parents being concerned about this is a key issue,” said Dr. Katherine Williamson, a pediatrician and spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “Even before the pandemic, we were seeing skyrocketing numbers of kids and adolescents dealing with mental health issues, and that has increased exponentially since the pandemic.”
We told our leaders that the incredibly sick and twisted mandates and restrictions that they were forcing upon our young people were going to have very serious mental health consequences.
And that is precisely what has happened.
But of course we must also acknowledge that the mental health of our young people was steadily deteriorating long before the pandemic ever came along.
It has become clear that no matter how much money we pour into our schools, it isn’t going to make things any better.
In fact, to me it is quite apparent that our absolutely pathetic system of public education is a big part of the problem.
If you want your teens to hate life, just put them into a public high school.
Having said that, I want to stress that having strong nuclear families is even more important to the mental health of our young people.
Unfortunately, the traditional family unit is under attack like never before, and in many cases it is being replaced by “new arrangements”…
Alysia and Tyler Rogers were already parents to two children, now ages 7 and 8, when they embarked on a romantic relationship with married friends Sean and Taya Hartless.
The two couples, originally from the US, moved in together as a polyamorous foursome in 2020 and the following year, Alysia and Taya delivered babies seven months apart.
Neither woman knows who biologically fathered the kids, with Alysia maintaining they will help the children discover that down the road if they ever want to.
I don’t even know what to say about all of that.
Unfortunately, a smaller percentage of U.S. children are being raised in a traditional home with a traditional father and a traditional mother than ever before.
And that has very serious implications for our future.
As we all get older, we are going to need the next generation to take care of us. According to the Washington Post, it is being projected that the number of elderly people in the United States will grow very rapidly in the years ahead…
That represents 55.7 million people, an increase of 15.2 million (38 percent) of people 65 and above since 2010, compared with just 2 percent growth in the under-65 population. It also reflects a consistent increase in the nation’s older population since 1900, when there were 3.1 million Americans 65 and older (4 percent of the population).
The report projects a climb to roughly 80.8 million residents 65 and older by 2040, more than double the number in 2000. It also predicts a doubling of the number of even older residents by 2040, with the count of those 85 and older expected to grow from 6.7 million in 2020 to 14.4 million by 2040. In 2020, there were nearly 105,000 residents 100 or older.
When we are all old and gray, we will be depending on the next generation to be the leaders of tomorrow.
But thanks to our failures, the next generation is going to be incredibly messed up.
Our society is being “fundamentally transformed” right in front of our eyes, and that is really bad news for all of us.
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The kids who can’t read or write are sure you are a transphobic racist!
I don’t think I’ve ever read anything authored by Michael Snyder that made me feel like I hadn’t just completely wasted my time. He occasionally points out obvious problems and never has any solutions.
Totally agree. I can’t stand people like him, ‘Here’s a problem’, ‘There’s a problem’, ‘Hey…another problem over here’. Alright, WTF are we supposed to do about it? Snyder is the worst, IMO, but I may not be aware of others.
Why do you need others to tell you “what to do about it”?
How many ways are there to say “gas the kikes, segregate the Blacks, disenfranchise women, shoot commies, and suppress atheists”?
What are yours?
Consider the argument that there may be problems for which there are no human-mandated solutions. In other words, there’s absolutely nothing we can do that will fix those problems. The only fix may be collapse of the system. I believe most of our problems arise because we always think we can fix things; and then go on to make things worse.
Governments create problems, then tell you they can solve the problem, but only make it worse. Schools are a prime example. In the 50’s/early 60’s, schools were local and parents were involved. They knew the teachers on a first name basis and talked to them regularly. Students were well behaved because the principal had the board of education in their office and were not afraid to use it. Parents usually reinforced the lesson the principal dished out because they were embarrassed by you getting your ass busted.
Government decided local communities were not running the education system properly so stepped in to demand that colored students be bussed into white schools and white kids bussed into colored schools. Schools were no longer neighborhood based, but were assigned based on the color of the student’s skin and parents lost the close personal contact with the teachers. Because the colored kids were getting the lion’s share of the board of education, schools were sued and discipline soon was dropped.
Government then decided they knew how to run all of the schools and established the Dept. of Education. One of the results of the DoEd was the necessity of hiring administrators to fill out all of the paperwork demanded by the DoEd. This was money that was no longer used to educate little Johnny, but was used to complete the lifeblood of bureaucrats. DoEd budget grows each year and student performance decreases each year, requiring more reporting on why kids are not measuring up.
Wow, great explanation. No sarc.
Governments create problems, and the masses insist on having governments.
The kids know they are doomed ,they never asked to be brought into this abbatoir.
Depends on your thoughts on incarnation.
Who the gods mean to destroy, they first drive mad.
#6 According to the CDC, “more than 95% of children and adolescents in the U.S. spend much of their daily lives in school”.
When I go to work I drive by the local elementary school that has the before school program. That’s usually at 6:00 am. Kids are getting dropped off at that time. The parents have to pick them up by 6pm. 12 hours.Half a day in the Penal Colony. I realize some people have no choice (single parents for one) but as I see parents driving away in their Escalades and Beemers, I feel priorities have sure shifted.
Yes, priorities are fucked up and bullshit for sure. America is about $$ and status. Everything else is secondary.
No excuses for any patent except for possibility of widower. Everyone else who has children who dumps their kids in cesspool for half their days is a monster.
When a person worships mammon, their eyes can not see the Kingdom of God.
Single parents would have a choice if more of them would talk, stop praising the prison system, chat with a neighbor and a retired (quality) teacher, and see what could be worked out regarding daycare and real education. People only look at what we HAVE, but never at what we COULD HAVE.
It is all individual. How are YOU raising YOUR children? That is the nut of it all. Outside influences are omnipresent, duh. What matters is how YOU do YOUR job. Outside influences are nothing but an excuse. You took your five year old to a drag show? Brilliant! You get loaded around your kids? Brilliant! You outsource your children’s education to a public school leaving all direction to the institution? Brilliant! This diatribe could go on forever.
It is YOUR job, how are YOU doing?
Amen
The anxiety, depression, and suicide is being programmed into them at all levels. As if school wasn’t bad enough in the first place.
Not being able to read has nothing to do with it. It’s just niggers.
“As we all get older, we are going to need the next generation to take care of us.”
This is debatable at this point. With 70%+ of the population east of East Palestine injected with God knows what, that has been shown to stunt the immune system more with each jab and then fogged with millions of gallons of carcinogens, there may not be as many people getting older. Also, with the mental illness of this upcoming generation and their proclivity to actively kill themselves by accident or intent, we’ll just be on our own until we’re replaced by an even more complaint populace (or so the open boarders idiots think). Meh.
Should I live so long, no one is going to take care of me, and I have nobody to blame but me.
No kids?
Correct.
I don’t either, really. My 2 girls are from a single mother I married over 20 years ago. I sure hope I die before my wife does. 🙂
Is it a little better in the Rural areas?
Baltimore and IL schools where the students are underperforming can be answered in one word and there is no solution as long as uneducated teen girls continue to get pregnant and pawn the kids off on the uneducated grandma to raise.
Most of the other problems can be solved with a good grounding of the children in the knowledge of Jesus and regularly attending a Bible believing/teaching church.
You can’t just train animals not to breed. That’s not how nature works.
You can stop incentivizing it and make people face the consequences of their choices though.
Who gives a damn if your kid is proficient in math or not…or can read at grade level or not??
If the other pieces of the puzzle are missing…which is so often the case, then it doesn’t mean a damn thing.
In our current society, academic success should be the very least thing to worry about.
~just a girl raised by a pack of wolves, but with a whole lot of love.
1) chill the fuck out
2) parents need to be involved. Take the fucking phones and computers away. Get involved.
3) see #2.
4) see #2
5) see #2 and also put them to work. They won’t have time to be sad.
6) we all spent much of our time in school. Parents need to take charge. Parents aren’t meant to be friends. They are meant to be responsible.
7), 8), and 9) you can’t teach shitheads with average IQs of 80 math and to read, especially when their parent doesn’t give a shit, and dad is unknown or in the slammer. Give it up.
10) society should beat the perpetrators to death on the courthouse steps.
11) put them to work. Take away their phones and communication devices. Tell them to stop trying to be men.
12) and 13) parents need to be involved. See #s 11, 2,3,5,
This isn’t happening to my children. And I won’t let it.
These are parental issues, and govt issues to the extent they keep pandering to minority groups and criminals. It isn’t rocket science.
We trust the CDC,we don’t trust the CDC….which is it ?….I lean toward “don’t trust”….period!
I mean seriously,why point out something YOU caused?wether you admit it or not……please!…
Who else bothers to track this? And if they are not to be trusted, obviously their data would be on the low side.
Don’t trust the CDC, or any other 3 letter agency. Since 9/11 I learned they are full of shit and will say the exact opposite of the truth, like, the air in lower Manhattan is safe. Where have we heard that most recently? Not to mention all the bullshit with the Covidiacy, various wars, vaccines, pistol braces/bumpstocks, gain of function research, Mockingbird BS, balloon/UFO/UAP BS… gawd it’s effing endless. Take away, if they say one thing think the opposite… This comes to mind again:
I am reading a book by German theologist and former Catholic priest (kicked out) Eugen Drewermann and it says that your entire task in life is to find that word or song that it uniquely hidden in your soul and then to speak it or sing it.
When I talked about that with our kids, our son says: “Cacophony”
Maybe he is a closet philosopher, or maybe he has just summarized his whole generation.
“”We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education.” – Roger Freeman, [governor]Reagan advisor”
circa 1970
Democrats say “It takes a village to raise a child” Well, I’ve met the village Idiots and come to the conclusion that these people should be no where near children. They shouldn’t be teachers, they shouldn’t be on school councils,
Teachers Unions are totally corrupt and so is the Dept. of Education. Get Govt. out of the schools or give parents the right to school choice to put their children in real schools, not the woke asylum brain washing kids to be mindless idiots who don’t know a dam thing, as soon as that money follows the child these cult institutions will wither and die on the vine.