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The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood (www.theatlantic.com)

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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.

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[-] sunbeam60@lemmy.one -1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, “it’s bad parenting” is tantamount to saying “guns don’t kill people, people do”.

I mean, people do kill people and crap parents do give their kids a phone too early.

But if you remove easy access to weapons and easy access to powerful computers beaming addictive social cues into children’s retinas 24/7 you definitely have an impact on negative incidents.

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