Phones: “By age 14, children with high or increasing addictive behavior were two to three times as likely as other children to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves”

https://archive.ph/20250618171053/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/youth-suicide-risk-phones.html

In the study nearly half of children fell into the “addicted” buck.

This study design can only show correlation; maybe the traits that increase suicide risk also increase phone addiction. Takeaway is that if your kid feels they can’t put their phone away they are at an increased suicide risk.