LGBT is becoming a social and political identity rather than a sexual identity for many young people, writes Eric Kaufmann in a Center...

We are failing our young men, argues podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey. That’s the one commonality in the vast majority of mass shootings....

Photo: Aspen Institute Project Play Sofia Velasquez, 15, enjoys playing soccer for her Chicago high school, but games keep getting...

Zachary Wright “had to drag my son kicking and screaming into kindergarten.” He remembered his own “struggles with anxiety, depression...

Here’s more on the fragility theme: A quarter of college students were diagnosed with mental health conditions within the past year,”...

A college education isn’t intended to make people think any more, write Greg Lukianoff, a First Amendent specialist, and Jonathan Haidt,...

Lilia Martinez, 15, a student in Michigan “estimates that of the 28 books she read over the last school year, both for pleasure and...

Middle schoolers are communicating more, but connecting less, writes Alex Whitcomb on Medium. Middle-school relationships are crucial, he...

The number of teens “hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide doubled in less than a decade,” according to a recent study....

Children — and their parents and teachers face a “crisis of self-regulation,” argues Katherine Reynolds Lewis in The Good News About Bad...

classified as disabled, largely because of mental-health issues such as depression or anxiety,” reports Douglas Belkin in the Wall Street...

A high school teacher might see eight to 30 students a day with serious mental health issues such as bipolar disorder, depression and...

Don’t blame technology for teen suicides, writes Mike Males in the Washington Monthly. Rates are much higher for rural and small-town...

Mamas, don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes, says social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in a Spiked interview. Over-protective parents are...

The average child gets his or her first smartphone at age 10, but some parents are pledging to keep their kids smartphone-free till...

The “super-connected,” smartphone-addicted teens of “iGen” are lonely and unhappy, writes Jean M. Twenge in The Atlantic. “Rates of teen...

Speech is violence, if it causes chronic stress, argues Lisa Feldman Barrett, a Northeastern psychology professor, in The New York Times....

In 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix series based on Jay Asher’s popular book,a 17-year-old girl sends tapes to all the people she blames for her...