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b_b  ·  321 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What We Learned in 2023 About Gen Z’s Mental Health Crisis

    I agree, so I think the solution is better parenting.

This is a fallacious line of reasoning though, because it's akin to saying that the solution to the obesity epidemic is to eat less. While this could be technically true for any given person, the fact that so many people are suffering simultaneously points to an underlying structural problem. I was just reading a lead story today in WSJ about how cancer rates, specifically cancers of the digestion system, are seeing significant increases among young people born since the 90s. It would be foolhardy to opine that gen Z should just live like everyone else did before them and they wouldn't get cancer. You have to identify, isolate, and correct the cause. In my opinion these scary high rates of depression are indicative that the milieu is toxic. Whether social media is the cause or a correlate is beyond my knowledge, but either way solely blaming the parents fails the test.