Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
A paradox: People are more connected now than ever — through phones, social media, Zoom and such — yet loneliness continues to rise. Among the most digitally connected, teenagers and young adults, loneliness nearly doubled in prevalence between 2012 and 2018, coinciding with the explosion in social media use.AdvertisementContinue reading the main s
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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First He Came for Cancel Culture. Now He Wants to Cancel Smartphones
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The intrusion of smartphones and social media are not the only changes that have deformed childhood. There’s an important backstory, beginning as long ago as the 1980s, when we started systematically depriving children and adolescents of freedom, unsupervised play, responsibility, and opportunities for risk taking, all of which promote competence,
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