Timothy P. Carney is the senior political columnist at the Washington Examiner and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of Alienated America: Why Some Places Thrive While Others Collapse, The Big Ripoff, and Obamanomics.
If you rely on sociologists to understand why people are having fewer children, you’re apt to hear that this is a happy story: In wealthy societies, parents are choosing “quality over quantity.”
“A primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults,” child development experts write in the Journal of Pediatrics. Children are far less likely to walk to and from school — or anywhere, really — than they were a generation or two ago. Parents don’t let 10-year-olds go to the playground unaccompanied. And then, we fill the children’s time with music lessons, travel lacrosse, and mountains and mountains of homework — on top of all the clubs with which they’re supposed to fill out their high school transcripts.
The authors suggest this is a leading cause of the massive increase in anxiety, mood disorders, and suicide and suicidal thoughts.
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