Serious parental failure in social media protection

By Peter Trankner

Pediatricians complain that social media made young people sick and affected their development. Pediatricians and adolescent doctors now accuse many parents of failing to manage screen time and demand better protection of children and young people from social media.

They claim that children can hardly escape the crass influence on the platforms and young people are almost no longer able to form a free opinion. It has been proven that social media makes young people in particular sick and dumb. “There is a serious parental…