Parents’ Smartphone Addiction Linked to Children’s Behavioral Problems, Study Shows

Parents’ Smartphone Addiction Linked to Children’s Behavioral Problems, Study Shows
A mother in Tokyo looks at her smartphone while walking with her child, March 29, 2015. Toru Yamanaka/AFP/Getty Images
Chris Jasurek
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A study shows that parents who cannot put their phones down tend to raise children who cannot behave.

The study by researchers at the University of Michigan and Illinois State University, published in Nature, followed 183 sets of parents. Of the participants, 40 percent of mothers and 32 percent of the fathers said they were too wrapped up in their devices.