To highlight this divide, ESET recently did some research into parents’ and children’s experiences with technology, in particular mobile phones, and found that the contrast in childhood mobile ownership between the two groups is stark. Surveying parents of 10- to 18-year-olds in the UK, ESET found that the average age to first own a mobile phone was 24, with 44% of those polled receiving them after their 21st birthday. Comparatively, the average age at which the children of those parents got their first phone was 11, and 73% had a phone before the age of 12.