Parents who ignore their children and use their smartphones instead of paying them attention may be putting their offspring at risk of depression. Chinese researchers studied 530 students aged between 10 and 18 years old to see if they were victims of parental 'phubbing' - a portmanteau of 'phone' and 'snubbing', which means being ignored in preference for a phone. Children who had phone-obsessed parents showed greater depressive symptoms when ...