A European Commission study has found that parental control programs function poorly when filtering Web 2.0 content such as social networking sites or blogs.

Computer games - often cited as destroyers of family life - are in fact encouraging more 'we-time', a new survey shows.

Nintendo is warning that children under six years old shouldn't use its upcoming 3DS in 3D mode.

Pregnant women who regularly use mobile phones may be more likely to have kids with behavioral problems, especially if those children start using a phone early themselves, new research shows.

There's no privacy nowadays for even the tiniest members of society, with a survey revealing that eight out of ten children have some sort of online presence before they reach two years old.

A British woman has been given a suspended sentence and banned from using a computer after failing to cook for her children for six months and allowing her dogs to starve to death. The 33-year-old widow has been playing Small World, in which dwarves and giants battle to dominate a too-small area - for up to 22 hours a day, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Pregnant women who live near a cell phone mast are no more likely to have a baby that later develops cancer, says a study in the British Medical Journal.