What? You really have no idea how epistemology works, do you? Just reading David Brooks make unsourced claims with third hand knowledge and thinking about what he said like it's true is no basis for an analysis, especially an easily studied one like this.
First off, you'd need to demonstrate an effect that focused on that age group. But suicide rates are going up much more quickly for the middle aged and the poor. [0] Second, you clearly have no idea what "safe spaces" are. They're not "every part of life", they're specific meeting places in the community and focus on problems that have to be grappled with constantly, everywhere else. People who have access to safe spaces are consistently living with unsafe spaces; providing a small space of momentary refuge isn't coddling.
First off, you'd need to demonstrate an effect that focused on that age group. But suicide rates are going up much more quickly for the middle aged and the poor. [0] Second, you clearly have no idea what "safe spaces" are. They're not "every part of life", they're specific meeting places in the community and focus on problems that have to be grappled with constantly, everywhere else. People who have access to safe spaces are consistently living with unsafe spaces; providing a small space of momentary refuge isn't coddling.
[0] https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/hea...