Teen Sexting
From Times Online
Jan 14, 2009
A new trend is spreading across America which involves adolescents, and has spread fast. Teens are sending nude or semi-nude pictures to one another on their cell phones in a practice called "sexting".
What started out as daring fun among adolescents has spread fast, and is starting to lead to serious consequences. Recently, teenagers have been arrested on child pornography charges and there have been reports of high-schoolers losing jobs or college scholarships as a result of being identified in sexually-suggestive pictures that have appeared on the internet.
Research conducted by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy last month revealed that 20 percent of the teens in the states say they have sent or posted lewd photos or video of themselves.
According to the national study, most teenagers who were sending the explicit messages were sending them to boyfriends or girlfriends, while others said they were sending the pictures to someone they had got to know online.
Please view the Sexting Powerpoint designed to educate students, as well as parents about this growing trend among adolescents today by clicking on the following link.
