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The rise in young children using technology has coincided with another trend: Children are not getting as much exercise as they used to.

Jean M. Twenge • Generations

Millennials are the first generation to do worse than their parents financially.

Jean M. Twenge • Generations

trigger warnings on sensitive material. Students also asked for “safe spaces” they could retreat to in times of stress.

Jean M. Twenge • Generations

Economic challenges are often cited as the reason why Millennials aren’t having children.

Jean M. Twenge • Generations

Jean Twenge argues that technological change is the largest single driver of generational differences, in her book, Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future. Putnam and Twenge both point to the “individualizing” or “atomizing” effect of new technologies of conv... See more

The Great Deterioration of Local Community And The Loss of The Play-Based Childhood

As the MIT professor Sherry Turkle wrote in 2015 about life with smartphones, “We are forever elsewhere.”[33] This is a profound transformation of human consciousness and relationships, and it occurred, for American teens, between 2010 and 2015.

Jonathan Haidt • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Black Lives Matter

Jean M. Twenge • Generations

The culture swung back to child protection with the birth of the Millennials starting in the 1980s, the era of those yellow BABY ON BOARD signs, they argued. Millennial kids would be nurtured and supervised.

Jean M. Twenge • Generations

With social change whipping by so quickly in recent decades, someone who is liberal at 21 might feel moderate by 45 and conservative by 75.