Adolescence
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‘Adolescence’ Does a Disservice to Young Men March 27, 2025
Adolescence is the new hit Netflix series everybody’s talking about, based on several instances of teen boys stabbing their female peers in the UK. The murderous protagonist, 13-year-old Jamie, is a white boy from the north of England—a fact many com...
Resist the Social Media Moral Panic March 26, 2025
Over the last week, we’ve been told repeatedly that Netflix’s Adolescence is a powerful reminder of how quickly anyone can be radicalised by the content we consume — even when it bears little relation to reality.Perhaps those people have a point — bu...
The Kids Aren’t Alright March 25, 2025
“Nightmarish” and “immersive” can feel like overused words when describing the experience of watching a TV drama. But they are adjectives that do not fully encapsulate what it feels like to follow the Miller family in Netflix’s four-parter Adolescenc...
Kids’ Phone-Based Existence Is ‘Inhuman’ March 22, 2024
“Suppose that when your first child turned ten, a visionary billionaire whom you’ve never met chose her to join the first permanent human settlement on Mars … Would you let her go?”“Of course not,” writes Jonathan Haidt.But the social psychologist ar...
The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood March 14, 2024
Something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents in the early 2010s. By now you’ve likely seen the statistics: Rates of depression and anxiety in the United States—fairly stable in the 2000s—rose by more than 50 percent in many studies from...
What’s the Price of a Childhood Turned Into Content? March 13, 2024
As the child of a popular mom blogger in the 2010s, Vanessa* worked throughout her childhood and adolescence. She filmed videos, edited social media posts, and participated in brand deals with companies like Disney—plus, she wrote and starred in cont...
