brief review of Jean Twenge's "IGen"

-easy read and somewhere between common sense and provocative at times; but a 2017 book; how dated?

-p. 3's summary of topics; p. 9's data sources

-p. 19's less sex, HW, reading, work, and sleep; less dating; less alcohol until college; later driver's license and ask for money vs. allowance; more TV/videos and fewer movies; less time with friends (more likely to be with parents-- and vice versa); less religion (except blacks-- 133; similar #'s with college-ed dad-- 134). Related, see: Derek Thompson in The Atlantic on the decline in "hanging out".

--> activity: internet and social media, especially for girls (self-present, less happy, lonelier, depression, anxiety-- despite more anti-depressants), less homicide but more suicide; for boys, video games; See: my review of Abigail Shrier's excellent book on this in the context of rapid-onset gender dysphoria and transgenderism, especially in young girls. Shrier has written a follow-up on the connection of therapy and kids failing to "grow up" (reviewed here).

--> big emphasis on safety (ch. 6); 312's "physically safest and most mentally fragile"

--> independent and libertarianish (ch. 10), except abortion and subsidies for child care and college

--> RX's: phone control, get out more, exercise, grow up and stretch

Jonathan Haidt has weighed in on a related topic in the past-- in a book with Greg Lukianoff, The Coddling of the American Mind (reviewed here). And Haidt has a new book on "the anxious generation" (reviewed here and here-- and excerpted here.