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Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’
Why have so many teens and twentysomethings stopped going out?
And while the prevalence of slumping on the sofa is partly driven by being broke, rocketing inflation doesn’t entirely explain why a poll in December by the campaign group More in Common found British under-24s were more likely than the middle-aged to support bringing back Covid restrictions such as nightclubs closing or the “rule of six” cap on socialising. Long before lockdowns curbed their liberty, risk-taking behaviour expressed in and youth offending was steadily declining in both and the UK, as, more surprisingly, was the number of young people holding either a part-time job or a driving licence – both once regarded as keys to freedom. Yet arguably they have never been more needed: one in four younger teens has had to give up a sport or hobby they enjoyed because their families couldn’t afford it, according to research by youth charity OnSide last year for a report bleakly titled Generation Isolation, which found three-quarters of the children questioned said they now spent most of their free time on screen.
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