{"id":90747,"date":"2026-06-14T07:25:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90747"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:25:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T07:25:40","slug":"uk-parents-support-an-under-16-social-media-ban-but-what-do-their-children-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/14\/uk-parents-support-an-under-16-social-media-ban-but-what-do-their-children-think\/","title":{"rendered":"UK parents support an under-16 social media ban \u2013 but what do their children think?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ab017bb369e63fdf05eb1da6036bf1bc96438a03\/712_0_4640_3712\/master\/4640.jpg?width=480&dpr=1&s=none&crop=none\" alt=\"A girl with long dark hair stands in front of a round table where several teenagers are seated, with shelving and lamps in the background\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These young people recognise dangers of \u2018addictive\u2019 social media but have differing views on a total crackdown.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/jun\/13\/parents-teenagers-children-under-16-social-media-ban-tiktok-instagram\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>These young people recognise dangers of \u2018addictive\u2019 social media but have differing views on a total crackdown.\u00a0 Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/carers.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90748,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90747\/revisions\/90748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}