And, on the subject of bedtimes, television grew increasingly grown up.
Putnam writes: "Our kids are increasingly growing up with kids like them who have parents like us".
The organization that compiled the report, child advocacy group the Annie E Casey Foundation, found it "especially troubling" that children are increasingly likely to grow up in a high-poverty neighborhood.
Our country's young, who should be nurtured and, crucially, allowed to make mistakes as they grow up, increasingly find themselves criminalised by antisocial behaviour legislation and ever-tougher sentencing.
Kids here increasingly do not want to grow up to be firefighters, policemen or presidents.
"It is extraordinary that successive UK governments have allowed this situation to fester for so long leaving the children of refugees to grow up in increasingly hopeless and squalid conditions.
The Story of a New Name (2012) Lila and Elena grow up in increasingly different social spheres, against a backdrop of the cultural and economic divide between northern and southern Italy.
But I do love Birgitte's relationship with the kids this series, the way Magnus is becoming a stroppy teen, and Laura is increasingly a grown up who thinks beyond herself.
Grace, who still has a day job as a court reporter and was clutching a stuffed elephant won in a game of whack-a-mole at the pier's amusement park, says Bleached's songs are increasingly about growing up.
Berusch: As children grow up, their personalities become increasingly defined.
