Sublime

Young people souring on having kids might partially be due to Gen Z’s higher rates of depression.

the rise of these new technologies seemed the most likely culprit for the rise in teen depression, self-harm, and suicide.

My central claim in this book is that these two trends—overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world—are the major reasons why children born after 1995 became the anxious generation.

self-focus continued to zoom upward in popularity even after 2005.

late Boomer and Gen X college students were more likely than early Boomers to say that they were going to college to make more money, and less likely to say it was because they wanted to learn about ideas

You can see a sudden and very large upturn in major depressive episodes, beginning around 2012.

The oldest members of Gen Z began puberty around 2009, when several tech trends converged: the rapid spread of high-speed broadband in the 2000s, the arrival of the iPhone in 2007, and the new age of hyper-viralized social media. The last of these was kicked off in 2009 by the arrival of the “like” and “retweet” (or “share”) buttons, which transfor

because 2018 and 2020 were the first election years when the majority of 18- to 24-year-olds were Gen Z, not Millennials.

In Sum Between 2010 and 2015, the social lives of American teens moved largely onto smartphones with continuous access to social media, online video games, and other internet-based activities. This Great Rewiring of Childhood, I argue, is the single largest reason for the tidal wave of adolescent mental illness that began in the early 2010s. The fi