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What are you talking about, most households give personal phones to their children, especially teenagers.

Laptops aren't rare either.

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Give the kid a device that is age-controlled. No need for all devices to support it.

the law is there because parents are fucking clueless unprincipled whining crybabies, who need a lot of support, and sometimes that includes a bit of pushing ...

or who knows what problem is this supposed to fix. orphans buying phones? kids buying secret phones behind their parents back?

I suspect there’s quite a difference between what most people do and what most HN commenters do.

I frequently see comments which would have made sense in the past (e.g. early 2000th) but kinda aren't fully reflecting reality anymore

it's as if humans have a tendency to make up their mind/world view in their younger years and then tend to kinda stick with it/only change it slowly as long as no big live changing events happen

Most CA households may be, but obviously not everywhere

Once you get outside the SV and NYC bubbles, the vast majority of kids do not have their own laptops in the US. Phones, obviously are somewhat more common, but as even you note that's mainly with regard to teenagers - the average 10 year old in middle America does not have their own phone.

Most of these kids have their own tablets though:

> By 2 years old, 4 in 10 children have their own tablet (40%), and by 4 years old, more than half of children (58%) do.

Tablet ownership rises to 68% at age 8.

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/researc...

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