The Dark Side of Digital Age: Impact on Youth Mental Health

UnHerd's Flo Read meets Jonathan Haidt to discuss the dangers of modern technology for younger generations.

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Since 2012, youth mental health across the West has steadily declined. Jonathan Haidt is an American social psychologist, co-author of bestseller The Coddling of the American Mind and author of the new book The Anxious Generation. His theory is simple: the introduction of smartphones to children around 2011 accelerated the crisis of social media addiction. He joins UnHerd's Florence Read to discuss parenting, porn and the age of anxiety.

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