While it’s obvious why screen time is up, it’s important to note which groups are affected most: low-income and minority households.
Two years later, while we are absolutely still in the middle of a pandemic, life has returned to semi-normal. But the habits developed in quarantine aren’t going away as quickly as parents probably would have hoped. According to this new report, tween and teen screen time is up by almost 20 percent overall. That increase is less than half of the increase two years before the pandemic.
For example, looking at the 1,306 tweens and teens who were surveyed for a week in 2021, researchers found that there were significant disparities in gender, class, and race across the board. On average, boys are spending more time online than girls, with significantly higher usage for Black and Hispanic/Latino kids in comparison to white kids. Those who came from middle-income and lower-income households families also reportedly consume more than kids from higher-income families.
"This report reinforces the importance of media choice for families, and the need for deeper research and understanding of how this much media use impacts our kids’ mental, physical, and emotional development,” Michael Robb, senior director of research at Common Sense Media, tells Scary Mommy, “as well as
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