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IN my book Free to Learn and in other publications I have described how, in recent decades, we have turned childhood into a period of resumé building. We have increasingly deprived children of the free time they need to play and explore in the ways for which children are biologically designed, and, as a consequence, have deprived children of the opportunity to acquire the many strengths that come from self-motivated activities. Now, in this letter, I present evidence that a cause of this increase in intensive, intrusive parenting is the increase in economic inequality over the past four or five decades. Economic inequality underlies parental anxiety about their children's future. CLICK HERE:
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