America has put age requirements in place to serve as roadblocks for young people looking to buy products such as alcohol, cigarettes, and guns, but today a concerned parent wants to apply those same standards to something else he thinks is quickly becoming a threat to American kids: smartphones.
Bringing up children is scary. Most parents feel a lot of pressure because they know they’re shaping the type of person their child will grow up to be.
Underage marriages among girls increased more than five times in Maharashtra’s northeastern Bhandara district, as did the marriage of underage boys in all 16 districts. In Bhandara, the marriage of underage boys rose 21 times over the decade to 2011.
Overweight children have fewer friends and are more disliked than their thinner schoolmates, a study found. They are also more likely to have unreciprocated friendships – thinking other children are their friends when the feeling is not mutual.
Financial needs are stressing families, rates of marriage are decreasing and more families outsource child rearing to third parties. Families are becoming more fragile, and increasingly our institutions carry the burden.
In UK, the charity NSPCC have developed a tool called Net Aware to help parents to protect their children and says younger children should be supervised.