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Toddlers becoming so addicted to iPads they require therapy

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Children as young as four are becoming so addicted to smartphones and iPads that they require psychological treatment.Experts have warned that parents who allow babies and toddlers to access tablet computers for several hours a day are in danger of causing "dangerous long term effects. Dr Graham said that young technology addicts experienced the same withdrawal symptoms as alcoholics or heroin addicts, when the devices were taken away.
He warned that the condition prevented young people from forming normal social relationships, leaving them drained by the constant interaction.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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