Someone else touched on the fact that as it becomes more common, keeping your kids from having access to technology only serves to make them be excluded from so

Someone else touched on the fact that as it becomes more common, keeping your kids from having access to technology only serves to make them be excluded from social engagement. But the other side of this, and I honestly think a much bigger driver than anyone wants to give it credit for, is that it allows parents to surveil their kids to an unprecedented degree, and for better and for worse, parents are not going to pass up an opportunity to keep better track of their kids. You'd never get a kid to keep a device on them that only tracked them. The fact it can also play games or go online is basically a bribe to be monitored.