It’s hard to find a teenager without a cell phone, now one Colorado man is working to make sure the two stay disconnected. Tim Farnum is the founder of the nonprofit group Parents Against Underage Smartphones.” He is leading the charge on a ballot initiative in Colorado that would be the first of its kind in the country. If passed it would ban the sale of smartphones to children under the age of 13 and yes that would include parents looking to do the purchasing for their tweens. It would work by requiring retailers to submit reports to the state government verifying that they had inquired about who each smartphone sold was going to be used by. Any retailer that repeatedly sold a smartphone with an under 13 user would be fined. Farnum says he came up with the idea after watching his children struggle with the immediate access to content that comes with having a phone. Critics say it should be up to individual parents to decide how young is too young. Or we could see the fake ID come into circulation a lot sooner.Underage Cell Phone Use
It’s hard to find a teenager without a cell phone, now one Colorado man is working to make sure the two stay disconnected. Tim Farnum is the founder of the nonprofit group Parents Against Underage Smartphones.” He is leading the charge on a ballot initiative in Colorado that would be the first of its kind in the country. If passed it would ban the sale of smartphones to children under the age of 13 and yes that would include parents looking to do the purchasing for their tweens. It would work by requiring retailers to submit reports to the state government verifying that they had inquired about who each smartphone sold was going to be used by. Any retailer that repeatedly sold a smartphone with an under 13 user would be fined. Farnum says he came up with the idea after watching his children struggle with the immediate access to content that comes with having a phone. Critics say it should be up to individual parents to decide how young is too young. Or we could see the fake ID come into circulation a lot sooner.