However, people born in the 1950s were raised differently from the rest of us. They were expected to manage their own boredom without screens, solve their own problems without parental oversight, and ...

Picture a classroom that smells like chalk and floor wax, where milk cartons sweat on the lunch line and seat belts are optional. Advice in the 1950s felt rock solid; parents, doctors, and teachers ...

In a recent post I contended that a major cause of the continuous rise in teens’ suicides from 1950 to 1990 was a continuous decline over this period in opportunities for kids to engage in the sorts ...