You’ll have heard about the one about mobile phones, right? They are the reason, allegedly, no one is getting married and having babies anymore. Alice Evans, a social scientist at King’s College London, believes the baby bust is because the youth can’t get off their smartphones.
Evans opined on Vox’s Today Explained podcast to host Noel King “I think the big change that we see across the world, all at very different levels of income, is the massive improvement in hyper-engaging online entertainment: TikTok, video games, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, Bridgerton, Netflix. “
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