Under 18? Are you serious? You think a 15 year old doesn't deserve a single ounce of independence?
Teens should be educated on proper use of the internet, not prohibited from it without trading away their privacy to parents.
Teens should be educated on proper use of the internet, not prohibited from it without trading away their privacy to parents.
Right, they should totally trade it to global corporations instead. Did you think this one through?
But he won't have a smartphone or unsupervised internet access. Neither provide independence, but shackles to kilotons of the worst quality content humanity has ever created.
The studied reason millenials were less likely to drive is not because cars got harder to afford or high school jobs harder to come by, but because of lack of interest (thanks to smart phones)
Even if you don't give your children a smart phone, they're going to be exposed to this behavior from their friends. And there are already articles of children who buy "burners" to keep their privacy from their parents.
Considering a smart phone can be bought for the equivalent of a month's lunch money today, good luck to anyone trying to keep one out of a kid's hands in ~2030.