Violet Affleck didn't understand the level of shock her mom, Jennifer Garner, felt during the Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year. The 19-year-old daughter of the 13 Going On 30 actress and her ex-husband Ben Affleck recalled a fight she had with her mom about climate change in an essay published in Yale University's Global Health Review on

Violet Affleck has penned an essay about public health. On May 18, the eldest child of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner published a piece in The Yale Global Health Review titled, "A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles.

The Yale University freshman recalled her experience with the 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires in an academic research paper for the school’s Global Health ReviewBen Affleck and Jennifer Garner's eldest child,