In 40 years of working for progressive causes, I’ve never seen liberalism in such pathetic decay. What bizarre mechanism makes modern liberal...
From the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month abolishing capital punishment for juveniles, to the latest media crusade to banish 16-year-old drivers,...
America would be radically different if young people ran it. The Edison/Mitofsky National Election Poll of 76,000 voters throughout the nation found...
How far can you get in the kid-fixing biz by just making things up? All the way to institutional accolades, congressionally recognized...
When Food and Drug Administration official Steven Galson recently blocked over-the-counter “Plan B” emergency contraception because he worried that 11- to...
Nothing enrages the zealots at the U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) – especially Director John Walters – like a...
February’s column featured anthropologist Margaret Mead’s warning that adults in modern cultures that are jolted by rapid social change will come to...
Remember that phony list of the “top school problems” of 1940 (“talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in halls, getting out of...
“Young people have become more like adults,” writes historian Joseph Kett in Adolescence in America, while “adults have become more like young...
Obesity has only recently been publicized as a major American public health crisis, and already authorities are pushing the usual politically popular...
“Talk to your kids about” drugs, violence and sex, urge various advertisements featuring West Wing celebrities, drug czars and other panacea-types. But...
Americans’ grotesque compulsion to trash their kids resurfaced in recent media alarms of a “middle-school sexual revolution.” Has anyone presented evidence of...
In recent visits to Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica and Ecuador, I saw adolescents routinely behaving in ways that would horrify American experts:...
AIDS, U.S. authorities told reporters and policy forums surrounding July’s World AIDS Conference in Barcelona, is just another teenage attitude problem. “HIV...
Protect our children!” cry the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation and Common Sense for Drug Policy, groups opposed to the “War on Drugs.”...
I have never met a “typical teenager.” Sullen, alienated, immature, impulsive, rebellious, obnoxious, immortality-deluded, high-risk? I’ve encountered as many grownups (me, for...
America’s ultimate prevention goal is that no teenager ever have sex, drink alcohol, witness explicit media, enjoy free time not rigidly structured...
Americans hate adolescents and never hesitate to let them know it. How else do we explain March’s ugly rush to typecast all...
Scary survey finding: 300,000 (says the Hamilton Fish National Institute) to 350,000 (says the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health) youths take...
Great Democratic presidents like Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy extolled young people as a national inspiration deserving expansive investment. Bill Clinton led...