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Lots of work offers the opposite conclusion, such as Pew surveys finding that kids who text the most also socialize the most in person.

If kids can’t socialize, who should parents blame? Simple: They should blame themselves. This is the argument advanced in It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd.

a metronomic diet of horrifying but rare child-abduction stories, and parents shortened the leash on their kids

75 percent of children 8 years old or younger had access to a "smart" mobile device at home

For teens, mobile use is near ubiquitous; almost 80 percent own a cell phone and three-quarters use mobile devices to access the internet, according to findings from a 2013 Pew Research survey.