Helping our children resist vice and love good

ERLC · Oct 21, 2026

Thankfully, parents and politicians are waking up to the destructive risks related to unfettered access to the internet and its “attention economy.” When I began studying questions of technology and moral formation 15 years ago, I recall reading one thinker essentially argue: “We don’t have long-term studies on the damage this might do to children. You can take the risk if you want, but I’d prefer not to.” Well, now we have those studies, we realize the magnitude of the risk and the likelihood of the damage, and concern seems to be coalescing around some helpful fences and regulations. This…