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    Is our smartphone addiction damaging our children? | Rowan Davies

    Research has found a link between ‘technoference’ and poor child behaviour. The need for light relief is very human, but perhaps we can find a happier balance
    by Rowan Davies May 31, 2017 3 minutes
    ‘Lots of us will recognise something that the authors term ‘absent presence’ when using tech around our children.’ Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

    A study published by the journal Child Development has taken a look at how parents’ use of technology affects their children’s behaviour, and has concluded that “technology-based interruptions in parent–child interactions” – a phenomenon known as “technoference”, which I’m fairly sure was a club night in Stockwell in the 1990s – could be associated with a greater incidence of poor behaviour on the part of children.

    Almost half (48%) of the parents in the

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