One would like to have an extensive report from an American source, but alas, we are obliged to settle for a long article from Great Britain, via The Telegraph. The good news is that the report includes some research from the United States.
I would guess that the issue with "Lockdown Babies" is less that they were born during the lockdown and more the fact that their parents don't interact with youngsters the way they used to sixty, seventy, eighty, and more years ago. Children born on the prairies (who would be the grandparents and great-grandparents of people my age) were likely just as "isolated" as the "lockdown babies" but their parents didn't sit on their collective a**es and watch videos and play on facebook. Kids who grew up in the "Outback" of Australia "attended school" via a radio, really not that different from the Zoom classes. Again. they probably got more engagement with their parents -- and tall these kids had to work on their parents' farms.
I am willing to be that homeschooled kids (or babies who were born to parents who will homeschool them) didn't suffer the setbacks other kids did. Because these were kids who had parents who were engaged as parents.
I would guess that the issue with "Lockdown Babies" is less that they were born during the lockdown and more the fact that their parents don't interact with youngsters the way they used to sixty, seventy, eighty, and more years ago. Children born on the prairies (who would be the grandparents and great-grandparents of people my age) were likely just as "isolated" as the "lockdown babies" but their parents didn't sit on their collective a**es and watch videos and play on facebook. Kids who grew up in the "Outback" of Australia "attended school" via a radio, really not that different from the Zoom classes. Again. they probably got more engagement with their parents -- and tall these kids had to work on their parents' farms.
I am willing to be that homeschooled kids (or babies who were born to parents who will homeschool them) didn't suffer the setbacks other kids did. Because these were kids who had parents who were engaged as parents.