Kids These Days

The article contrasts nostalgic claims that today’s youth enjoy more parental time, safer environments, and greater access to information with research showing increased loneliness, screen-time, reduced play, sleep, and reading, and higher rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide, especially among girls. It cites Jonathan Haidt’s “Anxious Generation” data on American children aged 10-14, attributing the decline to the “Great Rewiring” of 2010-2015 driven by social-media use.