A survey of 500 U.S. teenagers finds that almost 70 percent fear an “immediate negative impact” on the security of their families, the Washington Post reports.
“There are no secrets in families,” said Stanley Greenspan, professor of child psychiatry and pediatrics at George Washington University, who has started to see the economic anxiety show up in his practice. “Younger kids tend to be all-or-nothing thinkers. So a healthy 8-year-old is more likely to worry in a more extreme way than an adult.”
“What’s an economic crisis?” my ten-year-old daughter asked me on the way to the bus yesterday, echoing the phrase she had heard on the radio.
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