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 [...]
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Abuse, Provocative Avatars Increase Internet Risks for Teen Girls: Study
June 16th, 2009 by Teen Contributor · No Comments · Tech Talk, Teen Talk
Tags: abuse·avatars·body image·internet·online·safety·sex·Tech Talk·Teen Talk·web
Teens and Tweens Need Sex Ed, Says This Teen
April 13th, 2009 by Teen Contributor · No Comments · Teen Talk
By Kendall Stewart As a teen-ager, I think that teaching abstinence in schools doesn’t work. Schools with a health education program that promotes abstinence aren’t really teaching anything at all – I think they’re avoiding the problem and sweeping it under the rug. But as history proves, avoiding a problem doesn’t make it go away, [...]
Tags: abstinence·health education·safe sex·sex·STDs·Teen Health·teen pregnancy