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Early Smartphones: A Dangerous Risk to Child Mental Health

5 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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TJ Walker argues that smartphones double the suicide risk for children under 13 and compares the harm to heroin or a machine gun. He recommends waiting until at least age 13 to give kids a phone.

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Age 13.

It "makes them double the chances of wanting to kill themselves" (i.e., doubles the likelihood of suicidal ideation).

There is this thing that when you give it to young kids below the age of 13, makes them double the chances of wanting to kill themselves. It's not heroin. Presumably you don't want to give that to your kid. It's not a machine gun. Presumably you don't want to give that to a kid. It's this. It's a cell phone. If you want to reduce your chances of your kid wanting to kill themselves, don't give them a cell phone until the age of 13.

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