Thursday, August 6, 2026 · Kids Online
MIDDLE SCHOOLER NAMES THE BIGGEST THREAT TO HER GENERATION...
A middle school girl lays out how social media and smartphones are rewiring her generation — hyper-sexualized content, lost innocence, constant comparison. APP’s push for age verification and app-store gates is built for exactly this. Our poll shows parents and voters are united: 81% want porn age verification at high intensity, 83% want app-store checks. The gender gap vanishes on child safety. These are kitchen-table protections, not ideology.
Terry: “Our kids are growing up in a digital world trying to rob them of their innocence. Age verification is an important tool.”
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