The new Donald Trump administration has already signaled in many ways that it wants to prioritize the parent-child relationship and to protect that relationship from outside intrusion, like prohibiting gender education in schools.
One of the greatest threats facing the parent-child relationship today comes through smartphones and social media, Big Tech’s digital products, that have taken over childhood and family life.
One government agency in particular, the Federal Trade Commission, could be leveraged by the Trump administration to play a pivotal role in protecting childhood and family relationships from the intrusion of Big Tech companies. Parents need this help.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, rightly said that “[e]very parent with a young child or a teenager either worries about, or knows first-hand, the real harms and dangers of addictive and anxiety-inducing social…