And what she has to say goes straight to the heart.Confronted with today's challenges, parents feel helpless to protect their children from the enemy within their homes: the innapropriate television their kids watch for hours, the computer and virtual reality games that keep them from playing outside, when they should be learning from and about the real world. She's a good listener, perhaps the best listener in America. Working parents are harried, tired, and overextended. Our best instincts are undermined at every turn, and our families, to which we turn in crisis, are feeling the strain. And families today are experiencing a new set of realities. Our country is in a profound crisis: a crisis of decency, of civility, of character.

By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost sense of self. Here, for the first time, are girls' unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. Yet girls often blame themselves or their families for this 'problem with no name' instead of looking at the world around them. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence - from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary school - cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem.

Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, 'girl-poisoning' culture. Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr.

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