Lawmakers Should Give Parents Control Over Kids' Social Media
February 23, 2023
Big Tech and America's parents want different things for our kids. A new report co-released last week by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) and the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC)—titled "Five Pro-Family Priorities for the 118th Congress and Beyond"—makes that indisputably clear.
In a survey by YouGov of more than 2,500 American adults on a host of family policy preferences, EPPC fellow Patrick T. Brown found that 80 percent of parents support requiring parental permission before a minor opens a social media account. That's a huge number, but only a touch larger than the 77 percent who support giving parents administrator-level access to what their kids are seeing and doing online.
