A new smartphone has been unveiled that is designed to keep children safe through extensive built-in parental controls, location tracking and parental approval for messaging and call contacts.

These kids were likely given smartphones by their parents to keep them “safe,” and yet, those same devices were used to undermine the safety of their peers and even their own selves.The ...

Late last year, a new campaign group advocating for parents to hold off buying their children smartphones until the age of at least 14, started making headlines. There had long been talk about ...

Years later we could compare, for example, the kids who got phones at 12 versus those who got phones at 17. There are a few reasons this study would not work in the real world. The first is the ...

Kids with smartphones were also significantly less likely to be "cyberbullied" than their peers without smartphones. ... Kids prioritized feeling "welcome and safe" online over free speech (sigh).

A new smartphone has been unveiled that is designed to keep children safe through extensive built-in parental controls, location tracking and parental approval for messaging and call contacts.

I type ‘what is the right age to get your child a smartphone?’ into the tiny search bar on my smartphone as I begin researching this story. Anything between 10-13 seems to be the average from the top ...