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> skyrocketing depression rates Again people conflate correlation and causation very easily here, and don't account for changes in how mental health conditions
by strangecasts 2y ago
> skyrocketing depression rates
Again people conflate correlation and causation very easily here, and don't account for changes in how mental health conditions are coded, see https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-parent/ https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-coddling-of-the-american-p...
> no plausible alternative culprit offered [for plummeting birth rates]
"More than half the drop in America’s total fertility rate is explained by women under the age of 19 now having next to no children. Around a third of the missing births would have been unplanned, and the majority of them would have been to women on low incomes."
https://archive.ph/cJY3B https://archive.ph/cJY3B