but why? it's clear that people like social media and think their lives would be worse without it, how could it also be making people depressed?   i want to see the numbers for people who have been homeschooled. my hypothesis is that this correlation shouldn't exist for homeschooled women, and the reasoning goes like this: women transmit cultural values, mothers spend more time with their children than fathers, and more women are teachers than men. when girls leave home to go to school, they spend less time with women who believed that having children was virtuous (their mothers) and more time with childless women who believe that having children is not virtuous, and who, like gay men, can only reproduce those values by imparting them on other people's children.
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