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[quote=Anonymous]I see a wide range of teens in terms of income and culture. Some are coddled, some have appropriate responsibilities, some are basically living like adults-unaccompanied minors or teens basically raising siblings. Across the board, many of them are sad. The things they have in common are access to constant distraction (social media, phones, videos, just the internet in general) and a related decline of in-person socialization (even a kid who doesn't have a phone or social media has more limited access to in-person socializing because the other kids have those things), increase in existential despair related to access to news and media combined with the COVID experience of having the terrible thing actually happen combined with climate crisis. I think that even kids who wouldn't say "oh, I"m scared of climate change" have an underlying sense of dread that's beyond what my parents experienced (cuban missle crisis/cold war) and what I experienced (fear of nuclear apocalypse). [/quote]

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