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Sexting and texting teens need parental controls

By Alliance Alert

Wired: "The real question isn?t about having a smart phone or not, the real question is what are you as a parent doing to ensure your child?s security and/or appropriate behavior? Whether parents want to accept this fact or not is up to them, but teens are still children and their security and well-being is the responsibility of not only themselves and their school - but primarily of their parents . . . Parents are the ones who set the tone for behavior, parents are the ones who teach (or don?t teach) responsibility and morality . . . Sadly, a good portion of the current youth populace seems to have little regard for the privacy and personal safety of their peers, as evidenced by the articles linked above. With reckless abandon they have no problem sending a naked picture to everyone in class, disregarding the implications of that action (in some cases unfortunately, suicide.) This is behavior, not technology."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).