A Bahrain-based advocacy group has voiced support for a proposed legislation that would prohibit children under the age of 15 from creating social media accounts.
Smartphone Free Childhood Bahrain – an Instagram community launched last year by Royal Bahrain Hospital consultant psychiatrist Dr Gardenia Jasim Alsaffar – connects parents and works to raise awareness about the dangers of excessive smartphone and social media use among children. More than 250 people are currently part of the community.
“It is alarming to see a surge in youngsters coming to see me compared to previous years,” Dr Alsaffar told the GDN.
“I went from seeing one child a month to having adolescents and children making up half of my clinic, and so a proposal like this is something I have been awaiting for a long time.”
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