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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parenting and family structure has also been and is on the decline.  I feel this is more of the corrolatory cause of youth crime, violence, and mental health consequences.[/quote]

That's what has changed in the last 5 years?  That's the difference?[/quote]

Or the difference is the iPhone (since 2007, delayed impact).

Or it's the pandemic.

Or it's the rise of various parenting styles that are increasingly permissive.

Pick your expert and you'll get various different explanations. My personal one is a toxic mix of all of the above, plus what PP said about marriage. There's pretty solid evidence that intact two parent households lead to better outcomes.[/quote]
It’s the smartphone in 2012. Read an interesting book “iGen” that has some really interesting longitudinal studies about attitudes and experiences of older teens and young adults. There is a stark difference in data, beginning with smartphone adoption by general public in 2012. The author likens the generation to “growing up slower” - 16 & 17 year olds showed the independence and maturity of 13 & 14 year olds from 15 years earlier.

I taught middle school from 2006-2015 and high school since then. There are assignments and projects I successfully gave 6th graders 15 years ago that my 11th graders today couldn’t do because the assignments were open ended, required creative thought, and critical thinking. If it my kids can google the answer, they don’t know what to do.

I see it with my own children. We raised our kids low tech, minimal TV, lots of outdoors, take a book everywhere. When my oldest hit high school in 2014, the iPhone 4 was free with a family plan, so my 9th grader and 7th grader got iPhones. We didn’t want to leave out the 3rd grader, so they got an iPad. Biggest regret I have with raising my kids. All three kids are smart, but the difference in independence and phone addiction between the first two and my youngest is amazing. Youngest also got hit with the pandemic and virtual right when they hit puberty in 9th grade. Anxiety, depression, introverted. Academically ahead, socio-emotionally behind. It’s rough. [/quote]

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