Lisa Damour says today’s teens are best-behaved, citing safer choices

What was said

"In fact, we are raising the best-behaved generation of teenagers on record. They are doing fewer drugs than previous generations. They wear their seatbelts. They wear their helmets. They are delaying sexual intimacy. They are having fewer partners."

Lisa Damour argues that despite higher reported anxiety and depression, many adolescents are thriving and showing fewer risk behaviours than earlier cohorts. She points to lower drug use, more seatbelt and helmet use, and later sexual activity with fewer partners as indicators.