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iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy–and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood–and What That Means for the Rest of Us

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A highly readable and entertaining first look at how today’s members of iGen—the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later—are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and creator of Generation Me.

With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent want to consider today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s and later, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps why they’re experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness.

But technology isn’t the only thing that makes iGen distinct from each and every generation before them; they’re also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they’re obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. iGen is also growing up more slowly than previous generations: eighteen-year-olds look and act like fifteen-year-olds used to.

As this new group of young people grows into adulthood, we all want to consider them: Family and friends want to look out for them; businesses will have to figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities will have to understand how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also want to consider themselves as they communicate with their elders and give an explanation for their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.

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