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Teens and "Sextortion"

Brencis Wrote: Sep 03, 2010 11:19 AM
Hollywood et. al. pushes sex, finding every possible way to get into your house, your kid's life and his/her head, and then has the absolute cheek to blame parents for lack of control. It's like a ponzi scheme blaming the investors!
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garageman Wrote: Sep 03, 2010 12:58 PM
Stop being ridiculous. I see a new movie a week. If only there was more sex. Nobody is "pushing" anything on families. It is, however, the responsibility of parents to raise their kids right.
Theonethatknows Wrote: Sep 03, 2010 2:14 PM
Darby O'Gill Wrote: Sep 04, 2010 2:16 PM
Obviously you have no children and are new to the planet Earth...welcome, now, pay attention.SJS

Children today are often so voracious and versed in the latest communications technology that they make their parents feel like Myles Standish and Betsy Ross. Three-fourths of young people between 12 and 17 now own cell phones, reports the Pew Internet and American Life Project. And get this: 87 percent of those who send text messages told researchers that they sleep with or next to their phones. Half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, and one in three send more than 100, or more than 3,000 texts a month. By contrast, only 30 percent of teenagers...