For a little over a decade, we have been raising children in an environment that is hostile to human development. We need to change that now.

By a variety of measures and in a variety of countries, the members of Generation Z (born in and after 1996) are suffering from anxiety, depression, self-harm, and related disorders at levels higher than any other generation for which we have data.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Thanks for the paywall warning. I’ve opened the page in Firefox, clicked on Toggle Reader View immediately and could read all text. Here the end of the article :

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    We didn’t know what we were doing in the early 2010s. Now we do. It’s time to end the phone-based childhood.

    This article is adapted from Jonathan Haidt’s forthcoming book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness.

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