A new study on smartphone use and its effect on adolescents’ health may be one more reason parents should hold off on getting their kids the devices.

It's a common scene on public transport. A parent holds a mobile phone showing noisy cartoons to their young child. The pair ...

For the last few years, psychologists and social media experts have been sounding the alarm on the harmful effects of excessive screen time. In his 2023 report "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and ...

Latest American Family Survey explores how smartphones, AI, social media and more impact families across the country.

Jacquelyn Harverson is affiliated with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Louise Paatsch receives funding from Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence ...

Clearly, the lines of communication between parents and kids about AI are not wide open. Adults urgently need to start conversations with their kids about AI, experts insist. Thankfully, they largely ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Julia Wise, a mother of three in Boston, published an essay last February that articulated a new kind of parenting ...

Smartphones, social media and secret chat apps helped fuel an unimaginable internet flood of sexually explicit images of children, with more than 60 million such photos, videos and files reported ...