Parenting in the Digital Age The Challenges of Parental Responsibility in Comparative Perspective
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Mar 31, 2022
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positive parenting, parental mediation, digital media, Global South, Global Kids Online, cross-national comparisons
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As children in all countries of the world gain access to Internet services via a range of digital devices and services, and with the rapid pace of technological innovation, this has undermined parents' competence, which in turn undermines children's desire to turn to their parents for support, thereby challenging parents in their competence and role. In high-income countries, the shift towards enabling forms of parental mediation is taking place, while in middle and low-income countries.
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Boumekhila, khaled. (2022). Parenting in the Digital Age. Social and Human Science Studies, 11(02), 665 - 680. https://doi.org/10.46315/1714-011-002-046
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