According to the survey from Judith Newman, “One in five girls (11 percent between 13 and 16 years old) and 18 percent of teen boys have sent or posted nude or semi-nude pictures or videos of themselves. About 15 percent of senders forwarded photos to people they hadn’t actually met but knew only online.” Eleven percent of teen girls and 18 percent of teen boys have the ability to show nudity for pornography. Sending pictures to whoever he/she met online is at about 15 percent. Kids as young as 11 and 12 are taking compromising photos of themselves and sending those shimmering pixels over their phones and computers. (Newman, 2009) What’s not at all funny is what this incident says about the future. If the ability to spell one palindrome at …show more content…
(Newman, 2009) Even at a younger age, I began to feel jaded and number out. (Newman, 2009) Seeing sex can change a perspective of a child. Curiosity started at a young age. Kids are likely to believe more of what they see in the media than adults are. (Newman, 2009) They perceive people in porn to look and act just like you and me. (Newman, 2009) Many kids see nothing abnormal about creating and/or starring in porn, their perceptions lead to behavior that is less than desirable. (Newman, 2009) Children could understand on their own than others. It motivates people to act like the ones in porn. Teenagers are sexual beings and they want to push the envelope. (Newman, 2009) There’s not a lot of thought before hitting the send button. (Newman, 2009) Teenagers could be a sexual instrument unfortunately. Doubts were not entertained before uploading it. You are the parent. You pay the bill. You own the phone. Therefore, you have the right and responsibility to be a good watchdog. Get out of denial and learn how to check up on your kid. Privacy has to do with changing clothes and going to the bathroom, not ignoring all of their tech communication. (Thurman, 2004) The purpose of each of our body is for the person we marry, in which our husband or our wife. But apart from the given statement, you don 't own them. Among girls and boys, porn has become increasingly accepted, even kind of cool. (Newman, 2009) The American Idol-ization of the culture, where everyone can be a star. (Newman, 2009) Porn has been widely accepted among teens. Anybody can be famous. Not surprisingly there was broad support from key informants for further investigation regarding sexting and young people. Future research efforts need to identify how young people define sexting, the role it plays in their lives and their suggestions for how best to intervene. (Walker, Sanci, Temple-Smith, 2011) There are a number of key actions you as a parent can