Posted on 11/17/2005 4:01:20 AM PST by Kurt_Hectic
An expert on electronic media says that restricting a youngster's communication options is a modern version of child abuse.
Children in Norway begin mobile phone use early.
"If you deny a 14-year-old girl her mobile phone and MSN (Internet chat) access, it is just like child abuse," Elisabeth Staksrud told financial daily Dagens Næringsliv.
Staksrud is the European Commission's expert on attitudes to electronic media, and she is convinced that children's use of the Internet is far more advanced than parents and employers believe.
Next week the SAFT - Safety, Awareness, Facts and Tools - project, the world's biggest questionnaire on how the young use communication technology begins with support from the European Union. SAFT involves survey efforts from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Ireland.
The 2003 version revealed that nearly 90 percent of Norwegian youth between the ages of 13-16 chatted by Internet or mobile phone every week. Fewer than 3 out of 100 adults did the same.
Staksrud told Dagens Næringsliv that the Internet and mobile phones are a so vital part of the youthful social network that not taking part means risking social and eventually professional isolation.
"While business management think of the Internet as the web and e-mail, young users have a very much wider perspective. Business faces a gigantic management challenge to exploit the possibilities that these enormous networks represent," Staksrud told the newspaper.
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Sounds like this d00d is pushing for a gummint subsidy to the poor on these vital gadgets.
Sigh......
Before the we are going to hell in a hand cart comes on this is one persons opinion, someone in the industry
I guess I am guilty of multiple cases of child abuse.
We just took away my 14 year old son's video games, TV and telephone... Plus he doesn't even have his own cell phone.
I am so bad.
Considering she's in an advisory capacity, that opinion is going to count for something isn't it? Scary.
Until this morning I never knew there was such a thing as an "expert on attitudes to electronic media." So I can say this morning I learned two things: There is at least one expert on attitudes to electronic media, and some humanoid experts need to be captured and put in large natural habitat cages so the rest of us can walk by them and observe them in their natural habitat.
I think the cold and the long dark winters have deprived these people's brains of normal function.
"If you like deny a 14-year-old girl like her mobile phone and like MSN (Internet chat) access, it is just like child abuse. Like do you know?" Elisabeth Staksrud told financial daily Dagens Næringsliv.
Okay, now that's how a 14 year-old sounds who would make such a statement.
Mr. Brightside wrote:
I guess I am guilty of multiple cases of child abuse.
We just took away my 14 year old son's video games, TV and telephone... Plus he doesn't even have his own cell phone.
I am so bad.
---You'll be bad, if you don't sell those confiscated items to me at a good price :) I don't have a tv, or video game machine and i'm looking for a great price on one. :) :)
Too bad you don't live near me or i'd take them off your hands if you could give me a package deal. Show my post to your kid and show him someone's already bidding on his confiscated items, it won't be hard for you to sell them. hehehhee.
Thanks for the offer, but they were only taken away temporarily.
He is going to be selling his PS2 because he now wants the XBox 360.
No it wont.
There are hundreds of stories like this floating about, about some one saying something about something.
If I believed all the stories I here about America I would believe you are a nation of very fat people divided into screaming hippies on one side and extreme religious fundies on the other all waiting to have a civil war which should of broke out in the 80s.
The web and media is dominated by the sky is falling individuals whose only role in life is to trawl or create news stories which prove that life as we know it is ending.
Dang....I just abused the heck out of my 14year old last night.....he missed an assignement in his biology class and he had to turn in his cell phone,Ipod and stereo system.
Have you googled the wench?
Not if you can't afford it. But if you can afford one and you don't buy one for your teenager, then you are an abuser. At least that's my take on it ;-)
Sure, and should the 14-year-old girl wish to have the surgery to be a man, at age 14, and is denied -- that's also "child abuse". Same old boring script from socialist "experts". yawn.
Only 8-9 percent of those teenagers who seldom or never use cell, or mobile, phones have had sex.Around 60 percent of those teenagers who use mobile phones frequently have had sex.
Girls with high rates of mobile phone usage had eight times as high probability to have debuted sexually, compared with girls who seldom or never used mobile phones.
Boys with high rates of mobile phone usage were six times as likely to have debuted sexually than boys who rarely use mobile phones.
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