Cancer warning adds wrinkle to parenting debate

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This Jan. 25 2008 file photo shows Meghan Mulvany 12 left and her mother Kate Mulvany as they look at Meghans cell phone at their home in Stamford Conn. Kate says that although Meghan wanted the phone for social and status reasons ultimately Kate g ...
This Jan. 25, 2008 file photo shows Meghan Mulvany, 12, left, and her mother, Kate Mulvany, as they look at Meghan's cell phone at their home in Stamford, Conn. Kate says that although Meghan wanted the phone for social and status reasons, ultimately Kate got her the phone for safety reasons. (AP Photo/Bob Child, FILE)

(AP) -- When Amy Morris' twin boys, then 11, went on an academic trip to Washington last year, she agreed to give them cell phones at the program's request. But this summer she was dismayed to learn that girls at her 8-year-old daughter's day camp were using cell phones they'd taken along in their backpacks.


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