The Centre for Social Justice said research suggests there could be 814,000 users of social media between three and five years old
After a bombshell report warned that more than 800,000 of the small children were engaging with social media, Dr Charlotte Armitage told LBC that she is seeing an alarming rate of porn addiction in that age group.
Dr Armitage, author of Generation Zombie, told LBC’s James Hanson: “I’ve got families whose children are addicted to porn and they’re in primary school, children who are up till 4am in the morning and won’t go to sleep.
“Kids who are coming into school and falling asleep during exams, during the SATs exam. It’s really damaging for the child.”
Her intervention came after former minister Lord Nash described the figures released by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) as “deeply alarming”.
Responding to the shocking figures, Dr Armitage said: “I’m absolutely flabbergasted and I’m really disappointed. I’ve been working in this area for a really long time and to hear that 800,000 children aged three to five on social media when we know what the risks of that are is just shocking to me.” …
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