I've got six adult kids, and I can tell you, no matter how old your children are, you're never going to have a season where you don't want to pray for them.

And all the parents of teens just said, yes, amen, even more so.

I'm John Fuller, joined by Dr. Danny Werthe, who leads our parenting team. And Danny, we have to pray for our kids.

I mean, we're called to pray for our kids. We get to pray for our kids. But it seems like teens,

they're just, I don't remember a time when teenagers were facing more challenges and had more stuff

going on. Yeah, John, listen to this. So in 2022, big survey, CDC said that 59% of teens

admit to being addicted to their smartphones. That was in 2022. In 2023, a CDC report again,

60% of teen girls, 14 to 17, say they are persistently sad or feel hopeless.

And we know that within that same report, it showed that around 23-ish percent

considered, seriously considered suicide, death by suicide.

We know drug use has gone up, different types of drugs.

In 2021, so it's four years ago, and we know social media continues to grow, 90% of teens

felt pressure from social media to look a certain way.

And I've seen an increase in eating disorders in boys and an increase in eating disorders

in girls with implications all the way to death

with that. Boys are struggling with this thing called bigorexia trying to look as big as possible.

They say it's bulk season, that's what they call it. Kind of like a bear, right? I mean, they're just taking food in and they want to bulk up.

And that's something that's become popular.

And then lifting and lifting obsessively to try to be as big as possible.

And for what?

It's really for acceptance.

It's to look a certain way in order to feel a sense of love and affirmation from others.

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