A neglected kid complains about his parent's addiction. This isn't new, and the problem isn't phones, it's bad parenting. I feel bad for the kid and despite the publicity his situation won't change because it's all about how evil phones are. Not how evil neglecting your children is.
My thoughts as well. In fact what ran through my mind was if this same assignment had been given 30 years ago, the complaint would have been the same, but the physical device (land line phone) would have differed. These would have been the parents with the land line receiver glued to their ear chatting with whomever on the other end while their kids were ignored.
How can you honestly compare the "addiction" to using a landline phone with the addictiveness of modern smartphones and social media? Yeah there were some chatty-Cathy moms that were on the phone 24/7 but those were restricted to the home, and originally, to wherever the base unit of the phone in the home was, with a physical cable. I don't think it's a massive leap of logic to assume that the number of households this affects has drastically increased as smartphones have gotten increasingly cheap and ubiquitous over the past few years.
Four out of twenty-one 2nd graders (19%) say they wish the phone had not been invented. Because their parents are on it all of the time. That is all fine, but this is BBC worthy news? The BBC claim they see news reports of how our phones are bad for us all the time, and they don't even share one link. BBC... I expected more.
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