[CLIP] How the Online P*rn Epidemic Is Creating a Generation of Dopamine Addicts: Clare Morell

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"I'm arguing, and pleading actually, with parents to push these technologies out of childhood entirely - to say that the smartphone and social media, these technologies are too dangerous and too harmful to children.

The harm-reduction measures that big tech and their libertarian allies and even pediatricians have told parents is that you can mitigate these harms with screen time limits and parental controls.

And I'm trying to say, that is actually not possible, that the levels and the nature of the harms can't be effectively mitigated by screen time limits and parental controls.

And so, I'm really urging parents to not accept this kind of premise that these technologies are an inevitable part of childhood.

Actually, you can give your child a childhood free of social media and smartphones and other interactive screens, and protect their childhood and their brain development, so that they can enter adulthood as a successful, independent adults with agency and freedom and self-control and delayed gratification, and that we don't need to just accept that these technologies are part of childhood if we know that they're inherently harmful for kids.

And they're harmful for adults. But again, there's a deeper concern with children, which is that their brains and bodies and habits and everything are still being developed.

And we really want to protect this period of special vulnerability, so that they can develop into mature and healthy adults.

And so, I try to explain to parents that this actually is possible. Parents and families have done this and they are flourishing because of it.

And so, the book really tries to actually hold out a positive vision of what childhood can look like, and what's possible when we leave these technologies behind,” says Clare Morell.