Psychotherapist and family counselor Tom Kersting author of, Disconnected: How to Protect Your Kids from the Harmful Effects of Device Dependency joined Marc Cox to share his concerns.
"You talk about addiction, right?" quipped Kersting, "phones, games, all of these things are extraordinarily addictive."
"Smartphones became mainstream and now we have this overwhelming mental health and suicide epidemic among our young kids and it's 100-percent tied to being sucked into this, what I call, the modern day weapon of mass destruction. Phones, social media, and everything that comes with it," says Kersting.
"The average age of first smart-phone issuance is 10 and a half years old," explains Kersting.
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