Tech Addiction Doesn’t Only Hurt the Young

Tolstoy famously began Anna Karenina with, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” But that’s not Greg Schutte’s experience. Schutte has been a professional counselor for nearly three decades in Dayton, Ohio, and has served hundreds of clients from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Today, nearly all the married couples he works with are suffering from the same problem: addiction to electronics.

In a recent interview with the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), Schutte “low-balled” the numbers for us. Of his clients, he estimated that, “75 to 80 percent have something like a tech or social-media addiction.”