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Originally Posted by Coach
No it's not. The government isn't mandating that people have their phones on all the time, or that you even have a phone at all, or give one to your kids or whatever.
And radios and TVs DO have emergency broadcast systems that interrupt programming.
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Aren't we supposed to be getting more knowledgeable and sympathetic to mental health concerns, or is that just on Bell's Let's Talk Day? I'm telling you, startling me awake in the middle of the night with a siren beside my head to tell me anything is not healthy for me. Scaring my daughter about abductions in a way that suggests she has a role to play or action to take is not healthy for her. Why can't we be good citizens in other ways, but opt out of Amber Alerts (completely for her; at night time for me)?
I know the government isn't mandating that I have a phone. As a parent and business owner, though, I can't operate my life without one, so if your solution is that I don't carry a phone versus being able to opt out of messaging I don't want, I don't think you're offering practical/realistic/empathetic advice. Having a phone makes my nervous kid much braver knowing she can call me at any time. I don't want to take that lifeline away from her - I just want to disable incoming messages that she finds scary.