This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Petition Outlaw Smartphones for all under 16's.
To prohibit the sales and posession of all Smartphones among anyone under the age of 16.
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The mental health & wellbeing of school age teenagers has been terribly affected ever since the introduction of Smartphones for a huge variety of reasons.
Children are faced with a barrage of sexualised imagery and there is constant pressure to look & be a certain way. Plus there is the dangers of pornography & being groomed by sexual predators who are often much older men.
This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months
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