It’s Time for Parents to Stop Worrying About Sexting

It seems that nearly every teenager has his or her own smartphone these days, which has made them fully able and equipped to use a host of apps to send pictures and videos to nearly anyone.

With this type of convenience literally in the palm of teenagers’ hands, the amount of risky behavior taking place is almost endless, and is sending parents (and politicians) into fits of hysteria.

Along with cyber-bullying and texting while driving, parents of teenagers with a smartphone are highly concerned about their teenager “sexting.” However, recent research on teenagers and their promiscuous texting habits has shed …read more