Raising a Family in the Digital Age: A Technology Guide for Parents, by EPPC’s Clare Morell, Patrick Brown, Noelle Mering, and Mary Hasson, has been published today. This 20-page resource is designed to help educate parents about the harms and dangers of today's technologies and equip them with practical tools to protect their children.
Parents, Are You Prepared for the Digital Dangers your Kids Face?
Clare Morell National Review
Alexis Spence started using social media when she was eleven and soon developed a social-media addiction, which led in turn to her struggles with anorexia, self-harm, and thoughts of suicide over several years. Just last month a lawsuit was filed against Meta on her behalf, alleging that Instagram’s artificial-intelligence engine steered the then fifth-grader into an echo chamber of content glorifying anorexia and self-cutting, and systematically fostered her addiction to using the app. Her story is not unique and in fact represents just one tragic example of social-media harms to children that are too numerous to count. These harms have rightly led some commentators to call for banning minors entirely from social media.
Parents in prior generations mainly had to worry about threats to their children from outside the home, like school bullies or the lures of tobacco, alcohol, or other substances. But now the biggest threats are inside our homes, entering through screens. The rise of smartphones and the unending access to social-media platforms they afford are a primary source of danger to children today.
EPPC is seeking a full-time Director of Communications to oversee all external communications via earned and owned media channels. This role requires strategic expertise to ensure that all communications efforts align with EPPC’s mission and advance our priorities, as well as the tactical skills to execute this work on a day-to-day basis. It also requires the ability to synthesize the variety of work produced by our many scholars and programs into a cohesive story that reinforces EPPC’s identity as an institution.
EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson addressed the National High School Leadership Conference on the rise of leftist gender ideology and the fallacies in its view of the human person.
EPPC Cardinal Francis George Fellow Mary FioRito appeared on EWTN to discuss recent attacks on churches and pregnancy centers in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson.
The latest edition of the Big Tech Newsletter covers Elon Musk's withdrawal from his proposed Twitter buyout, formal investigation of the national security concerns raised by Tiktok, new EU regulations on Big Tech, and more.
A recent article in the Daily Signal praised EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson and Visiting Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis' work in Tearing Us Apart: Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing with reference to their recent appearance on the Life After Roe Symposium, presented by the Heritage Foundation.
