Youth

“One of the disturbing findings was that some 699,000 youth aged 12-17 have an addiction to marijuana in 2019 – representing 187,000 new youth with a Cannabis Use Disorder in 2019 versus 2018. Overall, more than 4.8 million people aged 12 or older reported Marijuana Use Disorder in 2019, up from 4.4 million in 2018.” - MCDaily

“I began part one of ‘Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy?’ with data showing the apparently unprecedentedly high rate of unhappiness among young people in America…. I do believe that a loss of values and meaning are the two greatest sources of unhappiness.” - Dennis Prager

“Though people have more money, better health care, better health, better housing and more education, and live longer than at any time in history, they — especially young people — are unhappier than at any time since data collection began.” - National Review

“In his analysis of data from the General Social Survey of five-year windows in which individuals were born spanning from 1965 to 1984 and published by the Barna Group, Ryan Burge…shows that younger generations raised in the church aren’t typically returning to church when compared with members of the ‘Baby boomer’ generation.” - Christian Post

“In a Friday ruling from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Judge William F.

“The CDC director released a statement just a few days ago in response to the death related to the outbreak of ‘severe lung disease in people who use e-cigarettes or vaping devices’ ” - Church Leaders

“Jon Bloom, author of Don’t Follow Your Heart: God’s Ways Are Not Our Ways, echoes this wisdom: ‘The truth is, no one lies to us more than our own hearts.’” - Christianity Today

“The study, made up of data compiled by the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey… was published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics. Emergency room medical personnel in 2007 received 580,000 suicidal cases. By 2015, that number escalated to 1.12 million.” - Faithwire

“Jonathan Morrow of the Impact 360 Institute explains why he believes Gen Z can’t seem to commit to a Christian worldview. He lists two main reasons: the fear of being seen as judgmental and all that it encompasses, and what he calls the ‘crisis of knowledge.’ … the belief that we can only glean knowledge from the hard sciences.” - Christianity Today

“Pew released a starting report last week, finding: Anxiety and depression are on the rise among America’s youth and, whether they personally suffer from these conditions or not, seven-in-ten teens today see them as major problems among their peers.” - National Review