[alfor]

The real problem is screens of all sorts: gaming and cellphones.

Most kids have unlimited access to internet so it's video games and porn for boys and social and games for girls.

The roads and curbs didn't change here, but the amount of time outside definitely did.

[ravetcofx]

Average cars got bigger and heavier with a higher line of sight since even the 90s, making them exponentially more dangerous for everyone outside them. Cars are the second leading cause of child mortality in the US

[jonathan_landy]

Link below has some interesting plots. One shows child pedestrian deaths per 100k population going steadily down since 70s. Yet adult pedestrian deaths have recently ticked up.

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/pedes...

[elzbardico]

And very few children die, because generally children are not very likely to die. So, what?

[yieldcrv]

someone’s never hooked up with Gen Z

Many girls are negatively affected by their porn consumption as well and this is a huge blindspot with the default focus on boys

[resoluteteeth]

It is possible that kids spending more time in front of screens is at least partly an effect of it not being safe for them to go outside on their own, rather than then kids spending time in front of screens simply being the cause of them not playing outside.

[alfor]

The road didn't change here but the behaviour changed drastically