The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
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The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/
For a little over a decade, we have been raising children in an environment that is hostile to human development. We need to change that now.
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.