{"id":131332,"date":"2025-10-19T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131332\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T03:43:08","slug":"half-of-hong-kong-children-aged-6-to-10-own-smartphones-non-profit-urges-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131332\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of Hong Kong children aged 6 to 10 own smartphones, non-profit urges delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[10525,18,4202,19,75915,17,78818,167,279,11997,12343,5756,1114,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-131332","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-eire","10":"tag-hong-kong","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ipsos","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-look-up-hong-kong","15":"tag-mental-health","16":"tag-mobile","17":"tag-parents","18":"tag-screentime","19":"tag-smartphones","20":"tag-social-media","21":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}