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Professor Jonathan Haidt is interviewed on how shifts in parenting norms are setting up a generation of students for failure, from his book, "The Coddling of the American Mind"
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Excerpt from Real Time with Bill Maher -- (2:14)"...Kids born around 1995 had a very different childhood from kids born a few years before...they're sitting at home on their devices talking with each other and this seems to be changing social development and we know this, this is not just some perception from outsiders, because the rates of anxiety disorders, depression, self cutting where they have to be admitted to hospitals, and suicide, all of these rates are way way up, especially for girls, and it all begins right around 2011 and so it's when this generation first enters college campuses in 2013, that's when this new attitude about speech comes in."
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