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Recently, Time Magazine published an article about the epidemic our teen girls are facing

in the United States and even our pre-teen girls.

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I'm Ann Wilson.

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These are the findings that came from the CDC, which stated that teen girls are now in crisis.

One in three girls considered suicide in 2021. Let that just think in. One in three girls considered suicide. Are you sure this is accurate? That's so high. It makes me teary, like reading it, thinking of my granddaughters.

And it said that's a 60% increase since 2011.

And it also said more girls are feeling so sad and hopeless that they can't even engage in normal activities.

I'm not kidding.

Like, I'm teary right now because we're thinking of our young women. Yeah. And I've talked to so many moms of teen girls and preteen girls that are at their

widths end. They don't know what to do because their daughters are believing a lot of lies.

And our culture is speaking lies and telling them lies.

And we as women are like, we want to go to war and battle for our daughters. But we're not always

sure how to go about that. So today we have hope. We do have hope. We have Dana Gresh with us today.

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