SHORT COMMUNICATION 132
Sexting-A growing Problem
By
Roger Behra
If you are a parent and have a son or daughter between the ages 14 and 24, the time is urgently-RIGHT NOW-at hand for you to get involved with your teenager about the ever increasingly immoral behavior called SIXTING. This behavior is not only immoral; it is a very dangerous activity. The percentage of involvement has increased to 25% from 18% in the past few months. Now one in 4 teens is involved in sixtings. As a parent, you must find out if your teen is involved.
For those parents not aware, sexting is the sharing of sexually explicit photos, videos and chat on line or by cell phone. In many cases their nude photo has been viewed all over the world. Sexting is unlawful. In some cases teens have faced felony charges. Nearly 50% of the teens who do sexting do not think it is such a big problem. The other half said it is a serious problem but did it anyway.
So many young people have a much different view of sexual photos posted online. They fail to realize that their nude photo might wind up in the hands of employers or college admissions officers. That can lead to much unexpected outcomes and insure that charges are brought to the sexting persons involved. And that is happening much more frequently.
Another important aspect is sixting does not stop with teens. Young adults 19-24 are even more likely to have sexted. At least 33% of young adults have said they have been involved in sixting, compared to 25% of teens. Parents have to be aware of what sixting is and what their children are doing in their spare time and with friends on computers and cell phones. Parents have so many another problems with their teens, and sextings is a very serious and unwelcomed problem.
Parents have the responsibility to practice religious living and to teach their children to do the same at a very early age. As the practice of irreligious living increases, so do dangerous, immoral, and another serious problems increase also parents and their children. It is a very natural and given out come.
R.B.
12-24-09