New report on mental health risks for kids using phones before age 13
ABC News’ Dr. Tara Narula breaks down a new report linking smartphone use before age 13 to poorer mental health outcomes in early adulthood.
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20 Comments
Uh-oh, Obama is in a whole lot of trouble over at FOX
Watching ABC is bad for your mental health as well. Well documented and peer reviewed.
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I'm 39 years i also became mental patient.
There is no evidence that supports kids using smartphones increase actual suicide. Fake News!
so 2025 you finally talk about this when it should have been talked about in 07 ? Nice…
Journalists failed to notice the studies' distinction between correlation and causation…
Words are hard to read
People REALLY are very stupid!!! I told parents NOT to give their kids phones until they’re 13 TWENTY YEARS AGO!!!!!! 🤷🏼♂️
“Mmm”..”mhmm”…”wow”…”sure”.. just let the woman talk damn
Females are the problem
There is far too much internet and social media fraud re: Mental Health. For Example Re: "Neurodivergent". It is NOT a medical term nor is it a medical dignosis. There is no single definition of what it means to be neurodivergent. The fraudsters are everywhere. Protect your kids. Protect yourself. Enough said.
It is absurd because It is hipocresy and false News. Matter of fact internet mental problems It is concern about a lot people in diferentes age. There are NOT free mind from social media make up mind as mechanics pathetic robot.
Kids have access to porn these days. Our "porn" back in the day was the Sears Catalog.
Oh, I forgot that immunity kicks in after age 13.
You are not very bright if you give any child under the age of 13 a phone. OMG.
Stop blaming the phones. Kids were very miserable in my schools without phones. Nature is very evil and humans need to fix mental illness with brain technologies.
Will parents be thrown in jail?
Get three year year-olds, using phones and computers, because it’s the wave of the future… cell phone addiction is the number one addiction in the whole world. Let’s get the kids started earlier.
This is old news.
I got my first smartphone at 11 and i would say that 13 is a very good age since most kids are starting to be more mature and the fact that most of them enter highschool makes it the right age to own one