There are studies gaining traction that pretty conclusively prove it’s due to shit diets.
Eat more veggies, fiber, and bioavailable nutrients and the rates go way down.
Turns out when you feed kids apple-flavored sugar water and ultraprocessed pop tarts and Hostess donuts literally their entire lives, their health goes to shit
Let’s remember while lazy and incompetent parents have always existed, it’s never been this fucking bad. Households working 10+ hours a day struggle to live without kids as it is in the richest nation in the world.
When your back is broken, you can’t buy your kid a reliable used car let alone college, you will never retire, and you will never own a home, it turns out raising an iPad baby with a jar full of cookies happens easier than you think.