A new survey of parents of adolescents and their views of smartphones.

A New York Times article points out the slippery slope for assisted suicide and euthanasia,

and a new source of encouragement for moms to have it all when it comes to career and family.

We'll discuss these stories and we'll tackle some of your questions. Great questions

as usual. And sitting in for Sean today is my Talbot colleague in theology, Dr. Eric Tonnes.

This is a think-biblically weekly cultural update from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

Eric, so glad to have you back with us. Always appreciate your insightful wisdom and with a nice dose of passion to go along

with it. Thanks, God. I love being with you. Yeah. Here's story number one has to do with an article in New York

Times entitled, We Don't Have to Give In to the Smartphones, continuing with the work of NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt,

who, by the way, author of a ground-baking book that we highly recommend called The Anxious Generation,

and his colleagues, one of whom is the CEO of the Harris Poe, Will Johnson.

They report on a two-year investigation, one from last year, a survey of the kids,

which we commented on, a survey just to remind you, a survey of over 1,000 members of Gen Z

found that many young people feel trapped, tethered to digital products like TikTok, Snapchat,

and others. Nearly half of all participants expressed regret about having access to many of the most

popular social media platforms so early in their lives.

But now, Eric, the really interesting part was a survey of the parents of these adolescents.

Again, a national survey over 1 thousand parents who have children under the age of 18. And here's what the study concludes. We find

widespread feelings of entrapment and regret. Many parents gave their children smartphones and

social media access early in their lives, yet many wish that social media had never been invented, and overwhelmingly they support new social norms and policies that would protect kids from online harms.

Almost a third of parents whose children have social media believe they gave their child access to social media too young, and 22% feel similarly for smartphones.

Interestingly, for both technologies, only 1% of parents thought they had waited too long to introduce them.

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