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OpenAI announces parental controls for ChatGPT after teen’s suicide

AI company announces changes amid growing concern over the effect of chatbots on young people’s mental health.

Al Jazeera · Sep 3, 2025

Here's how ChatGPT parental controls will work, and it might just be the AI implementation parents have been waiting for

OpenAI’s new parental controls and mental health safeguards for ChatGPT aim to make the AI safer for teens.

TechRadar · Sep 2, 2025

8 Ways You Try to Keep the Peace That Are Slowly Breaking Your Relationship

Are you always trying to smooth things over in your relationship? While you may think that you’re helping to keep the peace in your marriage, you may be doing more harm than good. Peacemaking efforts can erode trust and intimacy with your partner. Not to mention that suppressed feelings can…

Newlyweds on a Budget · Sep 2, 2025

Mother of woman killed by boyfriend ‘absolutely betrayed’ by justice system

Linda Westcarr spoke of her devastation following the sentencing of Gogoa Lois Tape to a hospital order for the manslaughter of her daughter.

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2025

These are the signs of depression in older people

Depression in adults is as common as it is in young people, but it can be harder to spot

The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2025

Mother of charity worker killed by cannabis-addict boyfriend slams 'failing' justice system as he's spared jail

Gogoa Tape killed Kennedi Westcarr-Sabaroche before driving around with her dead body in the passenger seat of a car

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2025

Study finds the young are the unhappiest they’ve ever been. This might be why

ANALYSIS: Unhappiness now peaks amongst the young. Alex Bryson, David Blanchflower and Xiaowei Xu look at the change and question why

The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2025

Lifetime trends in happiness change as misery peaks among the young – new research

For years now, research studies across the world looking at happiness across our lifetimes have found a U-shape: happiness falls from a high point in youth, and then rises again after middle age. This has been mirrored in studies on unhappiness, which show a peak in middle age and a…

The Conversation · Sep 1, 2025

How the midlife crisis was replaced by a decadelong rise in 'young worker despair' in the U.S.—and what it means for Gen Z

The midlife "hump" of despair used to be "one of the most important patterns in the world," says Dartmouth's David Blanchflower. But something else has taken its place.

Fortune · Sep 1, 2025

Headbutting walls, honesty part of Cat's unique appeal

Geelong boom recruit Bailey Smith's raw insight about his previous mental health struggles came as no surprise to his new Cats teammate Tom Stewart.

AAP · Sep 1, 2025