Thirty-eight percent of children under the age of 2 have used mobile devices, including iPhones, tablets and Kindles, up from 10 percent in 2011, according to a survey by Common Sense Media, a nonprofit focused on advocating on behalf of children.
Source, and for you sample-size hawks out there the margin of error for the full sample of zero-to-eight-year-olds (not the under-two subsample) is +/- 3%. Eighty percent of kids aged two to eight have used mobile devices; they seem to be playing games, mostly, though 30% of all kids aged zero to eight have at least tried to use them for reading books.
Throw this on the pile of evidence suggesting that our inequality data sucks (at least in part because it’s not changed much since 1963).
Then there’s this:
the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has advised parents to fight this trend by limiting screen time. In fact, for children under two, the AAP recommends no screen time at all.