Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up
Abigail Shrier
Author
In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z’s mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who are lonely, lost, sad and fearful of growing…
Publisher
Sentinel
Release Date
February 27, 2024
A Best Book of 2024
NPR: Books We Love
Every parent should read this.
Elon Musk
Fascinating, urgent.
Bari Weiss, Free Press
Essential reading for parents, teachers, and mental health professionals.
Richard J. McNally, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Harvard University
Shrier persuasively and forcefully demonstrates how mental health professionals (and some parents) often make things worse for the kids and adolescents they aim to help.
Elizabeth Loftus
Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science
University of California, Irvine
A powerful critique of a culture in which ‘traumatic’ describes anything from horrific abuse to your new laptop going on the blink.
Elizabeth Gaufberg, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Shocking, revelatory, and eminently important… A must read!
Amy Chua
Yale Law Professor
Author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and The Golden Gate
A dazzling combination of investigative reporting and story-telling.
Gerald Posner
Award-winning Investigative Journalist
Author of Pharma
The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Abigail Shrier
Author
Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively. But today whole groups of female…
Publisher
Regnery Publishing
Release Date
June 30, 2020
Publishers Weekly Best Seller
Publishers Weekly
Explosive…punchy, analytical and written with zest and elegance.
Christina Patterson
The Sunday Times
Best Book of the Year
The Times and The Sunday Times
London
Best Book of the Year
The Economist
Courageous. Vital. Brilliant. Humane.
Mail on Sunday
This fearless book shows how girls’ bodies have become collateral damage in adult culture wars.
Janice Turner
The Times
Well-evidenced and thought-provoking…. This is a powerful glimpse of a crisis in the making.
Sarah Ditum
The Daily Mail
A Journalist at the Top of Her Game.
Christina Patterson
The Sunday Times
Abigail Shrier is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at The Free Press.
She is the author of the New York Times bestseller and international bestseller Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up (2024), which was named a “Best Book” of 2024 by NPR.
Her previous national bestseller, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters (2020), was named a “Best Book” by the Economist and the Times (of London). Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.
In 2021, Shrier received the Barbara Olson Award for Excellence and Independence in Journalism.
She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a B.Phil. from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School. She clerked for Judge Judith W. Rogers on the D.C. Circuit.
