Facebook's former chief security officer, Alex Stamos, who said his daughter was allowed a phone at 13, outlined his phone ...

An extensive study looks at the risks of smartphone use for kids under age 13, and those risks are very real. Fact checked by Sarah Scott Over half of U.S. kids have a smartphone by age 11, but new ...

Planning on giving your child their first smartphone? On average, parents in Louisiana give their children their first cellphones before they reach 10 years old, and in New Jersey, parents wait until ...

No smartphones for their children until middle school. Three years in, their experiment is making waves far beyond Ireland’s ...

(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, new research suggests giving kids smartphones too early could come with serious mental health risks. The study links early phone ...

Today’s kids typically receive their first smartphone between the ages of 10 and 12, although more than half of kids age 8 or ...

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents ...

Early smartphone use was linked to low self-image in girls and boys. Children, especially girls, who own smartphones before they are 13 years old may have worse mental health outcomes when they're ...

High school prom can be a significant source of social anxiety. In February, my daughter told me, “I have a few good friends, but I don’t think many other people know me.” She still had some latent ...