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":210255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40717,6875,90532,90533,1906,2306,9052,66410,2334,224,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-210254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-chief-executive-john-lee-ka-chiu","9":"tag-hong-kong","10":"tag-ipsos","11":"tag-look-up-hong-kong","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mobile","14":"tag-parents","15":"tag-screentime","16":"tag-smartphones","17":"tag-social-media","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}