Game addiction leave child care agencies concerned
The Hindu
Free Fire, Call of Duty, PUBG are some of the violent online games that have a large number of students addicted leaving child welfare agencies concerned
On Monday, a school psycho-social counsellor received a panic-stricken call from the mother of a teenager at Paravur. Her 13-year-old son was so addicted to online games that he was found to have acquainted absolute strangers and even threatened parents who stopped him from playing the game. “Worse still, he was even shamelessly asking money from passersby to play the game. We have referred him for professional psychiatric intervention,” said the counsellor Mahitha Vipinachandran.More Related News

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