re: What age should a child be handed a cell phone?

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Whenever you're ready for her to send nudes to boys.

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Exactly.

I don't get what all this "my kids are responsible with their phones" talk is about.

You really don't know if your kids are being responsible or not with the phone. Your sons are probably looking at pornhub 2-3 hours a day and your daughter is probably taking selfies and sending them to dudes in her class. If they have phones, it's going to happen and you're not going to know about it. My friend's brother is 16 and he said his phone is loaded up with videos that girls in his grade sent him. He said that's pretty standard beginning in middle school.

This is another reason I don't want a child.