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Abuse, Provocative Avatars Increase Internet Risks for Teen Girls: Study

By Adrianne Loggins
The Internet has become a potentially dangerous place for teens to socialize. Although the Web is full of informative and helpful sites, unsupervised teens can run into trouble – including connecting with sexual offenders, who are liable to use chats, forums and instant messaging software to gain a teen’s trust and arrange a [...]

June 16, 2009   No Comments

When “love” is not OK: Abuse in Teen Dating

If this isn’t scary, I don’t know what is: Studies and surveys have found that between 10 and 30 percent of teens get abused or harassed while they’re dating. And much of this abuse is taking place via technology–through cell phones or on the Internet.

In a Jan. 4 article on the subject, the New York [...]

January 6, 2009   No Comments