American teens are in the grip of a mental health crisis, and one US state says the best way to protect them is to limit ...

A few states in the US are passing restrictive laws that are meant to prevent children from accessing adult content on the internet. But one state, Louisiana, is taking the battle against pornography ...

Warning: The surgeon general has determined that social media is harmful to your mental health, at least if you’re a teen.

Social media platforms are struggling to navigate a patchwork of US state laws that require them to verify users’ ages and give parents more control over their children’s accounts. States ...

Psychologists and the U.S. Surgeon General are warning against the mental health risks for kids and teenagers using social media. Here's what you need to know.

An August 2022 Pew Research Center internet survey found that more than 35% of teens ... Utah has passed restrictive laws requiring parental consent before youths can access certain social media ...

It is one of several proposals in Congress seeking to make the internet safer for children and teens. Meanwhile ... give children phones — and access to social media — until they are older ...

Social media giants are facing new fresh pressure ... The guidance does not suggest specific daily limits for teens. But it urges parents to keep children away from content about “beauty ...

Importantly, the report notes that social media is neither inherently harmful nor beneficial to teens and adolescents ... Another recommendation deals with limits on the time adolescents spend ...

For an increasing number of public schools whose leaders have sounded the alarm for years, a surgeon general’s warning on ...

Most recently, it’s U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who just today issued a major advisory on the effects of social media on youth mental health. As a parent of three teens and a tween ...