Browsing: Young

Teun Toebes was 17, a student nurse, when he first entered a care home. He entered, he remembers, “the closed ward”, where residents were locked inside.…

Daniel was working at a market in Lagos when he was given the chance to start anew in the UK. He had no idea what was…

On Tess Lavanda’s YouTube channel there is one video with substantially more views than the rest: it is titled “I don’t have any friends” and has…

A group of trans activists from across Massachusetts brought their needles, hormone gels, pills and sharps containers to Boston on Wednesday to send a message to…

The number of young people with no close friends has risen fivefold since 2014 as a result of growing up in a “bleak world” dominated by…

When Annie* started pacing around her house at 3am and struggling to find words during work meetings, she put it down to stress and perimenopause. She…

David Nwamini arrived in Lagos for the first time in 2016. He had come from a village in Ebonyi, a state in southeastern Nigeria. He was…

The quickest way to make being online safer for children and teens would be to kick all adult men off the internet, the Canadian psychologist Candice…

Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/Quyn Duong“This isn’t where I want to die,” my husband, Craig, whispered to me.We were in a shared room on the top…

The diagnosis is dire. Alan Milburn has published the first part of his forensic report on the lives and chances of young people, their fate after…