What Can Parents Do to Help With Their Child’s Social Media Addiction Case?

If you believe you might pursue a lawsuit, the first and most important step is to preserve everything. Once legal action is a possibility, there is a duty to preserve evidence, which means resisting the temptation to delete accounts or discard devices, no matter how distressing the content may be. We can help collect and securely store data, including photos, text messages, and device records, ensuring that critical evidence is not lost. If you can access your child’s social media, that’s helpful, but if you can’t, don’t worry—these platforms are intentionally designed to limit parental oversight, and we have ways to gather necessary information. Even without account names, we can often retrieve data and communicate with the defendants to uncover key details. Beyond the legal aspect, the most important thing is supporting and protecting your child. Changes in behavior can be easy to dismiss as typical teenage mood swings, but it’s crucial to look deeper. Sleep deprivation, for example, is a massive issue, especially for developing brains, and many parents underestimate how much social media contributes to it. Even when phones are removed at night, kids often find ways to retrieve them, highlighting how addictive these platforms are designed to be. The reality is that these companies are creating products that make parenting feel like running a prison, and children aren’t even fully in control of their own compulsive use. Rather than seeing this as just a discipline issue, parents should approach it as they would any harmful dependency—by recognizing that their child is being manipulated by a system designed to keep them hooked.