Do you recommend Mobile phones to School kids?

No, not required.

I was watching the news yesterday and heard that many girls are in abusive relationships. And the abuse is easier to hide from parents when girls have cell phones. Many guys call their gf's wanting to know their every move. And many guys text message their gf the average of 1 text message every hour at night. I think parents should be the ones to call their kids several times a day to know where exactly they are and who they are with. My niece has a cell phone she's 13. My sister tells her she better not go over her minutes or send text messages. And when she does the phone gets taken away.

I think that it would depend on the intended reason for giving the kid the phone, as to whether it's right for them to have one. If a parent gives in and purchases a phone for their kid so that they can text message their friends, perhaps that's not the best idea. If it's for safety and convenience reasons, perhaps it's a good idea. If the child is involved in sports or after school activities and would call for a ride home, this would be ideal as well. Perhaps it would be good for a child who finds his/herself in an uncomfortable situation. For example, maybe he/she is spending the night at a friends house and feels uncomfortable withhh something that is going on there (peer pressure) and would feel more comfortable calling on his own phhone rather than asking to use the parents phone.

I see absolutely no reason for kids to have a cell phone at all. Parents are told they are supposed to be monitoring the kids activities. How can you do that if they have cell phones. When I was a kid, my parents maintained that children had no need of a phone, that it wasn't a toy, and that if we wanted to talk to our friends we could do it at school. Where is it written that kids should be out roaming the streets? They should be home studying or interacting with their families. They don't need cell phones for security, they need to be home.

Well, here in the Philippines, it is already a custom that even a grade school kid owns their own cellphone. It is because their parents want to know where they are and in order to contact them whenever they want to.

I can see the argument for children having mobile phones although I doubt many of them get into emergency situations where a mobile phone would really be that much use. I think the unknown health effects are too serious to give phones to young children - it's going to be decades before we know the long term effects of using mobile phones and children (because their brains and bodies are still developing) are more likely to be harmed by them. I think if a child is given a mobile phone for emergency use they should carry it around switched off until they really need to use it.

I used to say no to this question , But in to-days world I now say yes , I think though they need to be at a responsible age , my grandson of 10 has one ( for safety sake ) and my granddaughter of 12 has one as she feels safer with it too , They are only allowed to use it so far to just phone immediate family , I think as they get older and more responsible then they will be allowed more credit in it , so Yes I think they should have one , xx