A Hong Kong non-profit group is stepping up a campaign for parents to delay giving their children smartphones until the age of 14, with a survey revealing more than half of youngsters between the ages of 6 and 10 in the city already own one.<\/p>\n
Look Up Hong Kong released the survey findings on Sunday in support of its push for parents to wait until their children turn 14 before getting them a smartphone and until 16 for granting them access to social media.<\/p>\n
The results coincide with an ongoing government review on how excess screen time is affecting children in the city, which was highlighted in Chief Executive John Lee Ka-chiu\u2019s latest policy address.<\/p>\n
The online survey, conducted in July by multinational research firm Ipsos for the group, polled 651 parents in Hong Kong with children attending primary or secondary school.<\/p>\n
About three-quarters had children in public schools, while the remainder were roughly split between international schools and private independent or direct subsidy scheme ones.<\/p>\n
Fifty-two per cent of parents said their children between the ages of six and 10 already had a smartphone. Ownership rates rose sharply with age, reaching 98 per cent among teenagers aged 14 or older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hong Kong non-profit group is stepping up a campaign for parents to delay giving their children smartphones…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,96429,10340,136086,136087,514,203,1479,40608,10301,1314,105],"class_list":["post-224325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-chief-executive-john-lee-ka-chiu","tag-hong-kong","tag-ipsos","tag-look-up-hong-kong","tag-mental-health","tag-mobile","tag-parents","tag-screentime","tag-smartphones","tag-social-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}