New research shows how current messages to ‘simply avoid’ sexting do not work for young people.
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eParenting and Parenting in the 21st Century
eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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New research shows how current messages to ‘simply avoid’ sexting do not work for young people.
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No amount of you trying to prohibit this practice will ever work. I mean, it’s never worked for sex, drugs or alcohol, has it?
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From first kisses to ghosting, dating can be a minefield for young people. Here’s how to have a happy, healthy romance
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New research shows young men value respect and boundaries in sexting, though their motivations for doing so are complex.
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Critics say children are being given police records for behaviour they do not fully understand
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Child safety experts say school-based sex education programs aren't keeping up with the times, or the technology when it comes to sexting, despite research showing one in three teens is engaging in the practice.
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Share and The Hunting both address the fallout from sexting scandals at high school. They're not easy viewing, but they are recommended.
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What every parent needs to know about this new form of online blackmailing, and how to avoid the devastating consequences.
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'Parents need to be on top of this, because social media outlets are not doing enough. '
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Teenagers are sexting less than they were five years ago, a national study has found.
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Experts say parents should acknowledge sexting as an aspect of teen relationships and include it in conversations about safety and respect.
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Rather than telling young people not to sext, we should encourage them to think about sexting as part of a broader negotiation of intimate relationships.
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A new study about sexting finds that 1 in 7 teens say they send sexts, and 1 in 4 say they receive them.
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For many children and young people, engaging with explicit material is not uncommon – and not necessarily harmful.
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WHEN confronted with the visual, uncomfortable truth, most parents say the same words: my child would never do that.
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Police in the UK have issued parents with a sexting dictionary of code words teenagers use to secretly exchange explicit messages and photos. - New Zealand Herald
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We know it's the wrong approach for physical sex education. The same goes for digital interactions, writes Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen.
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TEENAGE girls are being pressured or even blackmailed into sending nude selfies.
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A small Colorado town discovered that hundreds of students had been taking and sexting nude photographs "like baseball cards," shaking up th
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Unsuspecting children are being lured to play explicit, animated sex games through a website that purports to be a children's gaming site. - New Zealand Herald
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Musical.ly, an app that allows users to make short videos of themselves lip-syncing to pop songs might sound harmless, but Wenona School on Sydney's north shor
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Most people criticising schoolgirls for taking intimate photographs have the benefit of having grown up without the internet.
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A mother has hit out at at a slut-shaming and victim-blaming talk given to girls at her daughter's school after it was among those targeted by a pornography ring.
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Telling girls and young women to 'be careful what images you share' contributes to the shaming and humiliation of victims by placing the responsibility back onto them for their own humiliation.