The female characters on “90210” are ambitious, scheming and sex-crazed. The girls on “Gossip Girl” are privileged, scheming and sex-crazed. And the teenagers featured on the show “16 and Pregnant” are all — well — pregnant. Kate Engelbrecht, 35, spent a number of years watching the increasingly debauched portrayal of teenage girls in the media. She found herself wondering: Have teenage girls lost their minds?

“I was thinking to myself, ‘These girls are crazy, and their lives are crazy. What’s going on here?’ ” said Engelbrecht, a photographer based in New York City. “I couldn’t imagine how or why teenage girlhood had changed so much since my own adolescence.”

Engelbrecht’s curiosity led to “The Girl Project,” a sociological experiment that’s bound to make many parents heave a collective sigh of relief. Starting in 2007, Engelbrecht sent Kodak disposable cameras and detailed questionnaires to 13- to 18-year-old girls across the United States. Over a span of about two years, she reached out to 5,000 girls.

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A good idea, but also create a spinoff for boys!