Yeah not buying this bullshit and half-assed study at best, you just need to look around you how negatively these things and smart phones in general affect kids

Yeah not buying this bullshit and half-assed study at best, you just need to look around you how negatively these things and smart phones in general affect kids when they are introduced to them too early, unsupervised, in typical leave-me-alone-for-some-time failed parenting manner. I am not claiming it outright immediately causes depression (it probably does in same vein girls' magazines set unhealthy standards on looks for example but that's nothing new), but it definitely causes some hard damage in their long term happiness. For every success story there are 10 or 100 quiet failures. Many apps, be it social or games, also cause outright addictions and kids are very vulnerable to those and designers aim exactly at that. Does addiction create depression? I think everybody can answer for themselves. Its failure of both parents and regulators to not see this harm, or see but ignore/give up on it. I have plenty of examples around me, seeing say 10 year old kids or younger playing hard mental games with their parents to get more time on phone is not much better than seeing some heroin addict craving for his next kick. I think we generally lack some serious education step about current parenting, what are challenges faced, how to cope with them, and assist at least some form of actual help (not meaning some generic call helpline). I see more than not utter shock of people conceiving a kid or 2 and only later realizing how fucked they are in terms of free time, hobbies, passions, lack of sleep and overall sacrifices required, not for a year but much more. And no, you can't effectively outsource these to grand parents or nannies and call yourself a good parent, kids development will suffer in various ways, to be seen mostly later in life.