Two in Five Younger Women Want to Leave U.S. Permanently

Politics is driving the desire to leave. PLUS: The risks of weed for youth, and how one woman's passion helped bring "Plan B" to consumers.

In this edition:

• How Much Screen Time Is Your Child Getting at School? We Asked 350 Teachers.

• Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S.

• Actually, Gen Z Men Do Care About Abortion

• The Rise Of Sports Betting Is A Growing Public Health Crisis

• Growing Up in the Gray Area of Need

• Teens Who Use Weed Before Age 15 Have More Trouble Later, A Study Finds

• Sharon Camp, Mother of the ‘Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81

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How Much Screen Time Is Your Child Getting at School? We Asked 350 Teachers. (New York Times)

By Claire Cain Miller and Sarah Mervosh: American classrooms have been transformed by screens in the last five years, with most students, of all ages, now learning on computers or tablets during the school day.

Even as schools have moved rapidly to ban cellphones, screens are nearly universal: Ninety-nine percent of teachers said their school provided devices to students for use in class, in an informal national survey of 350 pre-K through 12th-grade teachers conducted by The New York Times in October.

Eight in 10 teachers said students at their school had a device assigned to them, compared with about a third who said that was the case in 2019 before the pandemic. And of elementary schoolteachers, 81 percent said students at their school receive devices for use in class by kindergarten. READ MORE

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Record Numbers of Younger Women Want to Leave the U.S. (Gallup)

By Benedict Vigers and Julie Ray: In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups.