06-01-2022, 08:35 AM
I was born in the early '80s when lead contamination pervaded everything. Even the air was filled with lead contamination from all the cars driving around.
Consequently it has a small effect on my mental development, as it has for everyone who grew up in the period of the early '20s until the mid '90s. It also increased violent crime. I'm still pretty sharp (putting modesty aside), perhaps it is because I grew up in a small seaside suburb so was contaminated as much as a more urban environment.
Children born after the mid 90s won't have had this contamination which affected earlier generations.
So yes, children have changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead
Consequently it has a small effect on my mental development, as it has for everyone who grew up in the period of the early '20s until the mid '90s. It also increased violent crime. I'm still pretty sharp (putting modesty aside), perhaps it is because I grew up in a small seaside suburb so was contaminated as much as a more urban environment.
Children born after the mid 90s won't have had this contamination which affected earlier generations.
So yes, children have changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead