Provocative and urgent, American Girls is destined to ignite a much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate unprecedented new challenges.

Our children are coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills. 

Speaking to more than two hundred girls, ages thirteen to nineteen, American Girls provides a troubling portrait of a new kind of adolescence- where issues of identity and self-esteem are magnified and transformed by social platforms that provide instantaneous judgment.