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The boom in commercial technology, the deprecation of print media, and a lack of old-fashioned parenting that emphasizes reading and critical thinking. That's what happened.
Didn't seem to help the boomers any.
Parents trying to influence their children positively now compete with billion-dollar-corporations and enemy nation states that have a direct feed line into their kid's mind.
And if you don't allow your kids a phone they'll be socially isolated.
That is a crock of shit and an excuse used by lazy parents.
It's not nearly as hard as it sounds, kids will adapt readily to parental involvement in their lives, and good parents share digital activities with their kids like playing online games together as well as taking them out to enjoy real life. I know a couple dads who play games with their kids every night, their older kids are close to the parents, they go out and do adventures all the time.
The problem is that many parents are also locked into the feeds from billion-dollar corporations and enemy nations.
Most people would want to break this cycle if they had half a brain and had the mental language skills to reason through their life issues and goals, but almost a quarter of adults in the US are functionally illiterate.
How can we possibly expect parents to provide guidance and hands-on understanding of what's going on in their kid's world when they can barely read anything more complicated than a shopping list or text? Not that many teens are better off, the same issue impacts many young people who may need special education to become more literate but face too much social pressure to even admit they're having a hard time with learning and reading.
There are a lot of problems with the modern family unit that could be solved much more easily and with fewer resources than most of our other societal issues, with active work and conscious effort to make guidelines in a family for better outcomes, but that's also the environment where it's just as easy to scroll and forget your problems.
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