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Why teenagers need mobiles

Text messaging is the	occasional chat as adults do, but	attempt to ban or control
latest way for young	to fulfil an essential need of	mobiles for the sake of their
people to feed their urge to	adolescence.	health is bound to be as [id:3401]
communicate. This is what	As teenagers strive for	as banning the under-16s from
Kate Figeswrote about it	greater independence, they have
in the year 2000…	to replace [id:3399] provided by
	their parents, with closer contact
Mobile phone users in the UK	with their friends. So they stick
are sending more than half a	together: girls walk arm in arm,
billion text messages a month,	boys backslap, punch and play-
according to the Mobile Data	fight, and when they cannot
Association. My guess is that	connect physically, they talk or
an increasing number of them	text message on the phone.
are teenagers "talking" to	Mobiles also offer security, a
each other.	valuable link to home in case of
Text messages are [id:3397], so	emergency, as well as the
children can use them secretly	freedom to escape from it.
in class, the modern equivalent	However, mobile phones
of passing notes under the desk.	may carry a health risk. In July,
There are one million mobile	David Blunkett, the Secretary of
owners under 15. Nine and ten-	State for Education and
year-olds are the fastest	Employment, wrote to all	any other adult pursuit.
growing market. This presents	schools in England and Wales,	Mobile phones are exciting
problems for parents, who foot	discouraging pupils under [id:3400]	because they are adult toys, but
the bill, and teachers who do	from using mobile phones	they are also central to an ado-
not welcome phones in their	16 "because they are more	lescent's sense of well-being.
lessons. But mobiles are	likely to be vulnerable to any	Any talk of [id:3402] seems quite
important to teenagers and, with	unrecognised health risks from	unimportant or remote when the
a skill you can only be surprised	mobile phone use than are	benefits seem so obvious.
at, they use one thumb to tap	adults because their nervous	And if the phone companies
out their own telephone	systems are still developing.	were to invest some of their
language, such as CU. I believe	Also, because of their smaller	profits, made from exploiting
it is important to understand	heads, thinner skulls and a more	this vital teenage need to talk,
why: they need to talk.	sensitive tissue structure,	into finding ways of making
For a teenager, a mobile is an	children may absorb more	mobiles safer, now thatwould
essential lifeline [id:3398] friends;	energy from a mobile phone	be something!
they are also cool status	than do adults."
symbols that make them feel	All adolescents know, of	Kate Figes is author of Life
grown up. Teenagers need to	course, that adults have a habit	After Birth, published by
communicate with their friends	of denying them access to the	Penguin.
all the time, not for an exchange	pleasures and the privileges of
of essential information or the	grown-up life. Therefore, this	'The Times'