Exploring proposed norms to regulate children's screen time and exposure to harmful content, including delaying smartphone use, avoiding social media early on, promoting phone-free schools, and encouraging real-world play. The chapter delves into the debate on government intervention in parenting, the emergence of a tech elite class, and the disproportionate impact of technology on less privileged families. It discusses voluntary solutions for balanced technology use, transitioning children to a tech-driven future, and the potential consequences of making social media harm to youth illegal.
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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