Why are teen girls in crisis? It's not just social media

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. I imagine so yes! But at the same time it's likely happening on the other end of the spectrum

as well these days, given young people are well-aware of climate change, and therefore likely consider the possibility that it may be a bad thing for the planet for them to ever have children.

A lot of teens are also likely fairly aware that it costs a lot of $$$ to raise a kid and are scared away from the idea on those grounds, even though optimally, they'd have kids.

Obviously not every teen girl wishes to grow up and make a baby or ten, I don't mean it like that but it's a pretty common goal for humanity in general, and therefore could easily be a some part of statistics like this.

Overall I think there's a TON of factors in problem like this ... but toxic masculinity being foisted on teen boys by the assholes on the right, as well as the easy availability of internet porn generally featuring women in their 20's that boys expect their high school classmate to emulate ... neither of those are going to be good for teen females mental health.

The prospects of low wages, expensive 2ndary education, expensive health care, expensive housing costs, both parents working at least 1 job ... etc etc etc, all these larger societal problems probably don't help either.