Social Psychologist, Jonathan Haidt in his book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness gives strong support for a global cultural shift that happened for kids born after 1996, where free-play-based childhoods were replaced by phone-based childhoods and along with it the rates of mental health symptoms spiked. “Overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the virtual world” lead to an anxious generation.