Cell phones? 'Everyone has them'

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

A growing number of children are becoming part of the cell phone nation at young ages. According to national data from Chicago-based C&R Research, only 7 percent of children ages 8 to 11 had cell phones in 2003. But by last year, that had grown to 26 percent.

In the same period, the percentage of children 12 to 14 with their own cell phones nearly tripled, rising from 21 percent to 58 percent, according to C&R Research.