Impact of the digital world on childhood

Barnardo’s have published research into how the advances of technology, and the resulting changes to society, has transformed today’s children’s experiences of childhood. Childhoods in a Digital World explores how technology continues to expand the gap between children and parents; the experience of today’s youngest children compared to those just a decade older; and the how the internet accentuate the risks children face. It also looks the opportunities in terms of access and education that technology provides children, and the world into which today’s children will graduate. The report includes some interesting statistics comparing ‘then’ and ‘now’, for example that 48% of children now play outdoors, whereas 83% of those who are adults now played outdoors when they were children.

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