Nutritional standards are also probably one of the leading causes on the nurture side.
That's a start, but interaction is huge too. Decades ago one might have pointed out that talking/reading to a child was critical, broader social interaction as well. So in 1950 a child of middling parents might have been talked to regularly, taken to market, sung in church, and walked around town. Today the child of a middling parent might see nothing more than a tablet for days at a time. I say this as an oldster that sees young adults afraid to make a phone call and unable to work a word processor. They're great utilizing current tech product though.
So in 1950 a child of middling parents might have been talked to regularly, taken to market, sung in church, and walked around town
This all ended because of the extreme paranoia of child predators and dangers that became common place around the 70s-90s. Children used to be trusted to just go out into the world and live at a very young age, but now need to be kept inside where its safe. And because they are still children, the tablets are used to pacify them from becoming unbearable.
The reasonings for this paranoia are at least partly media fear mongering and hugely the Civil Rights movement shoving impulsive, aggressive apes into every school and neighborhood with massive legal protections if you contested it.
Not to mention in the 50s a lot of parents had someone home at all times to take care of the child (mother, grandparents, the large amount of siblings), whereas now they are lucky if they can do a fraction of that interaction during the short period they have after work, during which they are usually exhausted from said job and doing a poor effort at it.
This is my soapbox rant to say that letting Women and Blacks have rights is one of the reasons why Millenials ended up sucking so hard and the problem with thier children is only getting worse.
That's a start, but interaction is huge too. Decades ago one might have pointed out that talking/reading to a child was critical, broader social interaction as well. So in 1950 a child of middling parents might have been talked to regularly, taken to market, sung in church, and walked around town. Today the child of a middling parent might see nothing more than a tablet for days at a time. I say this as an oldster that sees young adults afraid to make a phone call and unable to work a word processor. They're great utilizing current tech product though.
This all ended because of the extreme paranoia of child predators and dangers that became common place around the 70s-90s. Children used to be trusted to just go out into the world and live at a very young age, but now need to be kept inside where its safe. And because they are still children, the tablets are used to pacify them from becoming unbearable.
The reasonings for this paranoia are at least partly media fear mongering and hugely the Civil Rights movement shoving impulsive, aggressive apes into every school and neighborhood with massive legal protections if you contested it.
Not to mention in the 50s a lot of parents had someone home at all times to take care of the child (mother, grandparents, the large amount of siblings), whereas now they are lucky if they can do a fraction of that interaction during the short period they have after work, during which they are usually exhausted from said job and doing a poor effort at it.
This is my soapbox rant to say that letting Women and Blacks have rights is one of the reasons why Millenials ended up sucking so hard and the problem with thier children is only getting worse.