Is the mental health of teenage girls plummeting, compared to boys?

[Moon Shadow]

"Boys were the problem children a decade ago, and dozens of books sought to help. Now, girls are at risk, with drinking and self-harming on the rise, and a new industry is just beginning"


""Back then, girls seemed to be doing just fine. But, about five years ago, that all changed – suddenly, girls' mental health started to plummet. Everyone knew a girl, or had a girl themselves, who had an eating disorder or who was depressed or was self-harming. It was a huge change in a very short period; I started to investigate why this was happening."
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/...58767.html

[Antonio Montana]

Girls are strange creatures.

[Crayven]

Well they are told to expect too much and when the world fails to deliver - since it can't - they go into depression mode. Of course they develop such problems.

[zFirst Name W]

ITd say its about the same. Boys seem to kill themselves more than girls, Girls seem to selfharm more than girls. Both are issues.

[Counselling Tutor]

What a good question, and I too read the article in the daily mail, the quote that really got to me was 14 is the new 18.

My view is that the media at all levels are indoctrinating girls out of a childhood, and the prominence of an aggressive pornography business is forcing new social norms on girls which is having a serious impact on their emotional and physical well being.

So my answer would be yes

[Mabe]

I can't see it getting any better when these girls grow up subjected to porn by having a mother involved in the industry. That she will grow up seeking the attention in that way, the only way she will know unless she has a different role model that will show her how to get better attention than just this. I think more girls will go through relationship bouncing and not know how to handle on with the lifestyle she will chose to follow. More than enough willing men out there to accomodate this type of behavior as the normal way to go with it, because they too, are repeating what is around them to live. We are a product of our environment in our own individual ways. There are more and more things that go on that have a snow ball effect then what is thought at the time. For girls, it's about attention. We get paid a lot of it for everything we do, and might as well make it a good impression rather than bad, or what they get right? Some just don't know any better, some do, and don't care either way, and a select few will actually chose to reapeat it in a good way, and stay with it.

[Woody Red]

Not my problem.

ask the feminists to help you with this.

[StretfordEnder]

Yes

An increasing number of teenage girls are smoking, drinking, indulging in under-age sex and taking drugs