{"id":23052,"date":"2026-05-21T04:21:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hhs-warns-of-childrens-screen-time-use-citing-impact-on-sleep-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T04:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T04:21:19","slug":"hhs-warns-of-childrens-screen-time-use-citing-impact-on-sleep-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/hhs-warns-of-childrens-screen-time-use-citing-impact-on-sleep-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"HHS warns of children&#8217;s screen time use, citing impact on sleep, mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned about children&rsquo;s screen time in an advisory released Wednesday, citing impacts on sleep and mental health. The &ldquo;Surgeon General&#8217;s Warning on the Harms of Screen Use&rdquo; states that &ldquo;harmful screen use among children and adolescents has become a public health concern&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5888558-children-screen-time-warning\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) warned about children&rsquo;s screen time in an advisory released Wednesday, citing impacts on sleep and mental health. The &ldquo;Surgeon General&#8217;s Warning on the Harms of Screen Use&rdquo; states that &ldquo;harmful screen use among children and adolescents has become a public health concern&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}