THREAD: Effects of lockdowns & restrictions on kids and teenagers.
There's many amazing representatives of young people on here but as a young person myself seeing much of this daily, I thought it would be good to make this.

Firstly I think the underlying theme is just the destruction of livelihoods. The phrase 'let kids be kids' seems to have been forgotten about this year. Millions have missed out on experiences, events, friendships, socializing, education and just some the care free times of life.
90,000 London children homeless. This is very distressing.
https://t.co/fMuhFDWRU2
Child sexual abuse raised but is under reported.
https://t.co/dZVWkARWbe
Mental health worsens among young people, at the lowest risk from COVID.
https://t.co/i4gbLbYKyU
Pupils three months behind in education. Online learning doesn't work.
https://t.co/ggiC2tXFVe
Child abuse soars across the world.
https://t.co/1ZLrO1dskQ
Mass famine across the world, millions of children affected. For every person in the UK, 2 people in the world will be affected by famine brought on by lockdown.
https://t.co/GB27OWBiK0
Baby killings and harms spike by 20% during the first lockdown. Pretty hard to comprehend..
https://t.co/bKGUzT2zUM
I will add more to this later. If anyone has anything please send it to me

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This is a piece I've been thinking about for a long time. One of the most dominant policy ideas in Washington is that policy should, always and everywhere, move parents into paid labor. But what if that's wrong?

My reporting here convinced me that there's no large effect in either direction on labor force participation from child allowances. Canada has a bigger one than either Romney or Biden are considering, and more labor force participation among women.

But what if that wasn't true?

Forcing parents into low-wage, often exploitative, jobs by threatening them and their children with poverty may be counted as a success by some policymakers, but it’s a sign of a society that doesn’t value the most essential forms of labor.

The problem is in the very language we use. If I left my job as a New York Times columnist to care for my 2-year-old son, I’d be described as leaving the labor force. But as much as I adore him, there is no doubt I’d be working harder. I wouldn't have stopped working!

I tried to render conservative objections here fairly. I appreciate that @swinshi talked with me, and I'm sorry I couldn't include everything he said. I'll say I believe I used his strongest arguments, not more speculative ones, in the piece.

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