Review: Ecological awareness, anxiety, and actions among youth and their parents - a qualitative study of newspaper narratives.

Through the framework of childism, or prejudice against children, we conceptualize immature ways for adults to respond to youths' concerns as a defensive stance against overwhelming climate change anxiety. Alternatively, principles of existential psychology can help inform healthier and more productive responses from parents, clinicians, educators, and public health officials as they seek truthful yet supportive responses to address legitimate ecological threats that will disproportionately affect generations to come.