Sublime

U.S. middle and high schools have seen an increase in mental illness and psychological suffering among their students since the early 2010s. Many are implementing a variety of policies in response.

Harm #2: Sleep Deprivation

Putting it all together, the Great Rewiring and the dawn of the phone-based childhood seem to have added two to three hours of additional screen-based activity, on average, to a child’s day, compared with life before the smartphone. These numbers vary somewhat by social class (more use in lower-income families than in high-income families), race (m

So as 18- to 26-year-olds shifted from Millennials to Gen Z, the number who identified as trans skyrocketed.

A 2015 report by Pew Research[31] confirms these high numbers: One out of every four teens said that they were online “almost constantly.” By 2022, that number had nearly doubled, to 46%.

The Nature of the Surge

This gives millions of young people unfettered access to the internet—and to comparisons and distractions and porn and online shopping and hate speech and fake news and the list goes on—with little information about, or maybe even regard for, the consequences. No one really knows what the effects of all this will be. As the first generations of dig

Surveys show that unstructured time with friends plummeted in the exact years that adolescents moved from basic phones to smartphones—the early 2010s.