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Articles about child: July 6, 2008

Spain treats child phone addicts; introduces them to mental health institute

by Christian Milsom on Jun 16, 2008 at 01:58 PM

Child with phone

A recent survey has been done on the radiation emitted by phones and a brief insight as to whether that is really a biological problem. For those that don’t know the answer is pretty much no, but there are serious social problems that are caused by mobiles, shown very vividly in a recent case in Spain.

Two children, aged 12 and 13, have been admitted into a mental health institution to help fight their addiction to their mobiles, having been sent by their parents who felt that the children couldn’t carry out normal activities without their phone. They are now trying to cope for three months without their phones, after they were doing badly at school and were even lying to relatives to get money so they could fund their addiction. Dr Maite Utges, who runs the Child and Youth Mental Health Centre in Lleida said;

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