David French: 'Helicopter parenting is potentially stifling on its own terms, but it’s got to be incalculably worse when the hovering parent is gripped by fear and anxiety.'
A teenage girl at her home in Minnesota on Oct. 28, 2021.There is a depressing familiarity now to the conversations I’m hearing among parents of teenagers. After the obligatory pleasantries, talk often turns to mental health. Someone’s daughter is struggling, battling body image issues. Someone’s son is sullen and lost in video games. The parental concerns of previous generations have been replaced by a new triumvirate: anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation.
First, let’s map out the very bleak landscape. In 2021, nearly 60% of teenage girls reported feeling “persistent sadness,” Azeen Ghorayshi and Roni Caryn Rabin wrote in The New York Times. Overall, 44% of teenagers reported “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness,” according to The Washington Post, an increase from 26% in 2009. These are the familiar numbers — the scary uptick that has spawned soul-searching across the length and breadth of this land.
Aside from self-reported statistics about depression and anxiety or the grim toll of drug abuse and suicide, there are other indicators that the adults simply aren’t all right. Partisan animosity, for example, simply keeps rising. Adult anger and pessimism are pervasive: A recent NBC News poll indicated that a record 58% of registered voters surveyed believed that America’s best days were behind it.
Parenting styles have changed. As Peter Gray wrote last year in Psychology Today, the increase in teen suffering “has occurred during a period in which young people have been subjected to ever-increasing amounts of time being supervised, directed and protected by adults.
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