{"id":3082,"date":"2025-07-28T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/smartphone-users-under-age-of-13-risk-poor-mental-health-when-they-are-adults\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:04:30","slug":"smartphone-users-under-age-of-13-risk-poor-mental-health-when-they-are-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/smartphone-users-under-age-of-13-risk-poor-mental-health-when-they-are-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone users under age of 13 risk poor mental health when they are adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-28 12:04:28<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Children who own a smartphone before they are aged 13 risk having poor mental health in early adulthood.<BR><br \/>\nOver 100,000 youngsters aged between 18 and 24, took part in a study, published Sunday in the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.<BR><br \/>\nThe group were asked when they got a smartphone and a range of mental health symptoms,<BR><br \/>\nThe experts found that those who had a smartphone before age 13 had worse mental health and reported suicidal thoughts, as well as aggression.<BR><br \/>\nAs a result, experts at .Labs, which hosts the world&#8217;s biggest database on mental health, have called for technology companies and parents to take &#8220;urgent&#8221; action and to roll out restrictions to stop under-13-year-old children from accessing smartphones.<BR><br \/>\nTara Thiagarajan, one of the study&#8217;s authors, told ABC News: &#8220;The younger the child gets a smartphone, the more exposure to all this impacts them psychologically and shapes the way they think and view the world.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Ideally, children should not have a smartphone until age 14, and when they do get a smartphone, parents should take the time to discuss with their children how to interact on the Internet and explain the consequences of doing various things.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The longer we can push off allowing our kids to be on social media, we are learning, the better. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I think lots of families are getting creative \u2026 landlines \u2026. flip phones for kids [are] maybe an option so that they can have access to communicating without all the other things that come with smartphones.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-28 12:04:28 Children who own a smartphone before they are aged 13 risk having poor mental health in early adulthood. Over 100,000 youngsters aged between 18 and 24, took part&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3084,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/3084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}