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Why Are Dutch Girls So Unhappy?
Writer Kitty Herweijer highlights that over 60% of Dutch secondary school girls experience weekly mental health issues and 15% feel lonely most or all of the time, nearly three times the rate for boys. The article links this trend to excessive social media use, which exposes young women to negative worldviews, misogyny, and doom scenarios rather than positive representations of their increasing societal freedoms and economic independence.
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