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Boomers, few of whom are presently toddlers, pre-teens, or even adolescents, seem as prone to screen-addiction as any other age group.

This is unlikely a result of bad parenting brought about by an extant technological environment in their own youth:

"Baby boomers can’t stop staring at their phones" November 12, 2022

But there is another demographic that is struggling with putting down their devices: Baby boomers. Smartphones came into their lives late, but they were quickly won over. Now some of their children say they are hooked, staring at their screens constantly, even when they should be paying attention to their own grandchildren. Two-thirds of boomers own a smartphone and about 6 in 10 are on social media, according to a 2019 Pew Research Center survey.

<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/12/boomers...>

Archive/paywall: <https://archive.ph/Tz5Lj>

The Pew study on which that article is based: <https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/09/09/us-generati...>