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Raising the age minimum on digital services from 13 to 16 or 17 would probably fix a lot of the ills caused by it. And/or teach media literacy from a young age.

And anyone here who reduces teenage digital addictions to “bad parenting” can pound sand. Nothing about parenting is simply the result of “the parents” and their methods. Raising a child is an impossibly multi-variate occupation and you only have so many knobs to turn and hours in the day.




As long as parents can deny their children digital devices, the ills of the use of same can be assigned to the choices of the parents.


As long as parents can deny their children spending money, the blame for liquor stores marketing and selling to children can be assigned to the parents.




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