Canberra:
Anthony Albanese, the Prime Minister of Australia, mentioned that they’ll legislate a minimal age for social media to maintain kids protected.
Albanese mentioned that it is about supporting dad and mom and holding children protected.
In a put up on X, he mentioned, “We’ll legislate a minimal age for social media to maintain kids protected.”
We’ll legislate a minimal age for social media to maintain kids protected.
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) September 9, 2024
He added, “Dad and mom inform me they’re anxious about what age their children must be on social media. We’ll introduce laws on this time period of Parliament to implement a minimal age for social media and different digital platforms. It is about supporting dad and mom and holding children protected.”
Dad and mom inform me they’re anxious about what age their children must be on social media.
We’ll introduce laws on this time period of Parliament to implement a minimal age for social media and different digital platforms.
It is about supporting dad and mom and holding children protected.
— Anthony Albanese (@AlboMP) September 9, 2024
On August 21 final yr, the College of Michigan Well being C.S. Mott Kids’s Hospital Nationwide Ballot on Kids’s Well being, greater than half of fogeys rank psychological well being points as the highest well being concern for his or her kids and teenagers.
General, psychological well being and expertise use topped this yr’s prime ten listing of mother or father worries about health-related points for kids in the US, surpassing childhood weight problems, which oldsters ranked as the highest kids’s well being difficulty a decade in the past.
“Dad and mom nonetheless view issues immediately impacting bodily well being, together with unhealthy consuming and weight problems, as vital kids’s well being points. However these have been overtaken by issues about psychological well being, social media and display screen time,” mentioned Mott Ballot co-director and Mott pediatrician Susan Woolford, MD, MPH.
Two-thirds of fogeys are anxious about kids’s elevated time on units, together with general display screen time and use of social media, taking the No.1 and No.2 spots on the listing of youngsters’s well being issues this yr, in accordance with the nationally consultant ballot.
“Kids are utilizing digital units and social media at youthful ages, and oldsters could wrestle with appropriately monitor use to forestall detrimental impacts on security, vanity, social connections and habits which will intrude with sleep and different areas of well being,” Woolford mentioned.
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