"The Anxious Generation": An insecure generation? Yes, namely those of the parents

Some claims sound so obvious that they pass as general truths. Berlin can’t get anything done. Deutsche Bahn is a juice shop that is constantly delayed. And of course: Smartphones make our children stupid, lonely and dependent.

Anyone who advocates such theses can be sure that many people will nod in agreement, because it reflects a feeling that many people share. This is also the case with the thesis of a new book that has now been published in the USA and will also be available in German from June: The Anxious Generation ( in German: Generation Angst) by the US social psychologist Jonathan Haidt. The book’s intellectual subtitle: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Leading to an Epidemic of Mental Illness.

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