"Today’s young people are held to be alienated, unhappy, violent failures. They are proving anything but" - Amit Patel

"In America, the proportion of high-school students reporting “binge-drinking”—more than five drinks in a single session—has fallen by a third since the late 1990s. " - Amit Patel

"Over the past ten years pot-smoking has increased, a bit, among these older teens; but even though now legal in some states (see page 35) its prevalence is still far lower than in the 1970s, when Barack Obama was a member of his high-school “choom gang”. Use of other recreational drugs has fallen sharply." - Amit Patel

"America’s teenage pregnancy rate is half what it was two decades ago" - Amit Patel

"Teenagers appear not just to be waiting longer for sex, but also by-and-large to be being careful about what they get up to once they get started." - Amit Patel