While investigating the “age-crime curve” literature, we discovered a crucial omission: decades of research associating adolescent age with more crime had...
Unlike economists, if all criminal justice experts were laid end to end, they actually would reach a conclusion: there’s no way today’s...
Barack Obama wrote three books rife with praise for his mother’s character, intellectuality and accomplishments – yet he never mentioned that...
Normally, it’s hazardous to prophesy in a column written before the election what the next president will do. But since Republican John...
The American news media’s relentless crusade against young people is becoming crazier by the day. Networks incessantly replay years-old video of a...
Heed my cautionary tale about how ideology sabotages insights. Back in 2000, I set out to prove that cigarette smoking, like other...
Admit it: Most of us in the youth field owe our jobs to appalling government and institutional dereliction. The abject failure of...
“All evidence suggests that narcissism is more common in recent generations,” San Diego State University psychologist Jean Twenge declares in her popular,...
Note: This is a response to a guest column last month by Laurence Steinberg of Temple University, who accused Males of exaggerating...
When it comes to slurring young African-Americans as promiscuous, violent, and stupid, influential African-American leaders and commentators make radio clown Don Imus...
By Robert EpsteinQuill Driver Books, March 2007450 pages, $24.95 “Adolescence” is a bonanza for youth programming. Without America’s doctrine that we must...
In the United States, “action” consists not of taking constructive measures to fix a troubling social problem, but designating a powerless scapegoat...
Yes, it was two-thirds yuppie soap, but Fox television’s “The O.C.” illustrated a slice of teenage life with an irony that’s refreshing...
Gary Yates, president of The California Wellness Foundation, recently mischaracterized teen pregnancy, invoked destructive stereotypes that brand poorer mothers’ babies as “social...
The bigoted vendetta waged by America’s news media and institutions against youth has entered an even uglier phase: outright fabrication. Endless “teen...
“In time, the experience of the children of immigrants became the experience of all American children, who now were the representatives of...
To grasp the appalling meanness of the American Automobile Association’s latest media attack on teenagers, consider the tragedy of Travis Bosse. He...
Many parents think their children are safe in one of our most hallowed institutions, until they discover its dark side: violence, sexual...
“Just light sprinkles,” the pilot rasped as my flight from Medellin, Colombia, descended through Miami’s murky skies. “In a few hours, it’ll...
The avalanche of videos and program materials proposing to deter American youths from acting like American adults – that is, indulging sex,...