They talk about the boys... at least enough to say the girls have twice the rate of depression, that the boys' depression can manifest as aggression, and that these teen boys are victimizing the girls sexually.
It's from surveys, as far as I can tell, so attempts to compare results with anything except same results for previous years for the same sub-group needs a giant asterisk next to it (and even comparing across years is iffy, depending on what conclusions you're trying to draw).
Twice the rate of self-reported, when asked persistent sadness, as boys' also self-reported rate, then.
Hell, the article even kinda covers this, noting that boys' depression may not be experienced as persistent sadness. And that's before we consider biases in tendency to report such things to begin with, which may (to put it lightly) differ between the sexes.
(Nb. it may well in-fact be true that girls are experiencing depression at double the rate of boys—but a survey's not enough to determine that)
On another topic:
> On a handful of topics, the survey results suggested teenagers were doing better than in previous years. They reported lower rates of illicit drug use and bullying at school, for example. And teenagers are having less sex, with fewer sexual partners, than in previous years.
I mean... the jokes write themselves. "No wonder they're all sad!"
Twice the rate of self-reported, when asked persistent sadness, as boys' also self-reported rate, then.
Hell, the article even kinda covers this, noting that boys' depression may not be experienced as persistent sadness. And that's before we consider biases in tendency to report such things to begin with, which may (to put it lightly) differ between the sexes.
(Nb. it may well in-fact be true that girls are experiencing depression at double the rate of boys—but a survey's not enough to determine that)
On another topic:
> On a handful of topics, the survey results suggested teenagers were doing better than in previous years. They reported lower rates of illicit drug use and bullying at school, for example. And teenagers are having less sex, with fewer sexual partners, than in previous years.
I mean... the jokes write themselves. "No wonder they're all sad!"