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Apps for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social networks on a smartphone in New Delhi, India, on March 22, 2018. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images
Over the past several years, we have seen incident after incident that has shown that the “kids are not alright,” particularly teenagers, whose rates of depression, self-harm, substance abuse, and suicide continue to rise at alarming rates.
Timothy S. Goeglein is the vice president of government and external relations at Focus on the Family and the co-author of the new book “What Really Matters: Restoring a Legacy of Faith, Freedom, and Family” (Fidelis, 2026).