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The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood
The younger a kid is when they receive their first smartphone, the worse off their mental health is as an adult.
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As the MIT professor Sherry Turkle wrote in 2015 about life with smartphones, “We are forever elsewhere.”[33] This is a profound transformation of human consciousness and relationships, and it occurred, for American teens, between 2010 and 2015.
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