[ekianjo]

> However a hefty portion of that accident reduction is attributable to other safety improvements.

very hard to differentiate between product safety improvement and attitude change of parents, because both are co-factors. There is no good way to dissociate one from the other.

> child suicide rates are way up, which research attributes directly to the decline in independence.

and brainwashing

[freehorse]

> and brainwashing

Kids are brainwashed to commit suicide at scale? Could you elaborate?

[ekianjo]

If you keep telling kids there is no future, climate change will cause mass starvation and whatever of course you increase the propensity towards despair and suicide.