{"id":50107,"date":"2025-12-10T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/already-had-a-profound-effect-parents-react-to-australias-social-media-ban-5\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:04:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:04:43","slug":"already-had-a-profound-effect-parents-react-to-australias-social-media-ban-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/already-had-a-profound-effect-parents-react-to-australias-social-media-ban-5\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Already had a profound effect\u2019: parents react to Australia\u2019s social media ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We asked you to share your views on your children\u2019s use of social media and how the ban is affecting your family. Here is what you told us<\/p>\n<p>For some parents, social media sucks up their children\u2019s time and steals them away from family life, instilling mental health issues along the way. For others, it provides their children with an essential line to friends, family, connection and support.<\/p>\n<p>When Australia\u2019s social media ban came into effect on Wednesday, millions of under-16s lost access to their accounts and were prevented from creating new ones.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/ng-interactive\/2025\/dec\/10\/parents-react-to-australias-under-16s-social-media-ban-interactive\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We asked you to share your views on your children\u2019s use of social media and how the ban is affecting your family. Here is what you told us For some parents, social media sucks up their children\u2019s time and steals them away from family life, instilling mental health issues along the way. For others, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}