Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

According to the 2025 World Happiness Report, the United States ranks way down the list, number 62, behind nations that are even facing terrorism and war.

In fact, the happiness decline among young

Americans has been greater in the last 10 years than in nearly every other nation in the world.

Not granting here that measuring happiness is a problematic thing to do to begin with,

it's still clear that many Americans, as you two saying years ago, still have not found what they're looking for.

At the recent Lighthouse Voices event, co-sponsored by Focus on the Family and the Colson Center,

Dr. Jeff Myers of Summit Ministries identified a key to overcoming unhappiness and finding meaning, especially for our young people.

It's called resilience.

Here's Dr. Myers.

Resilience says, I want to learn to become comfortable

being uncomfortable.

I want to be comfortable being uncomfortable.

Some of you have been following the transgender issue in the last few years.

And what we're finding is a couple of very disturbing things. Number one, young women are far

more susceptible and the ones who are most susceptible are the ones who spend the most time on

social media. There's no question about this in the data any longer. This is evidentially proved at this point.

The second thing that is very difficult about it is if a lot of parents submit their

children to these unproven medical treatments because they've been told by the doctor,

your child will be more comfortable if she undergoes puberty blockers or if she takes

cross-sex hormones. And these unproven medical treatments that are so devastating for these young men

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