Richard Hogan: Teenage girls are the loneliest group in the world — how can we solve this?

When parents sit down with me and ask 'how do we get her off the phone?', the question I have for them is 'if she wasn’t on the phone what would she be doing?'
Richard Hogan: Teenage girls are the loneliest group in the world — how can we solve this?

Richard Hogan: "When parents sit down with me and ask “how do we get her off the phone?”, the question I have for them is “if she wasn’t on the phone what would she be doing?” There is often a profound silence as parents ponder the answer to that question."

Teenage girls are the loneliest group in the world, according to a new World Health Organization report.

The research was designed to gain an insight into which groups of people are lonely and how to combat the problem.

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