First, there was “sexting.” Now, there’s something else for parents of teenagers to worry about. Rebecca Hagelin, senior communications fellow for strategic initiatives at The Heritage Foundation, warns parents of teenagers about “sex ed texting,” which unlike semi-nude or nude photos distributed electronically by teens to teens, is sex advice sent to teens’ cellular devices by adults. From Hagelin’s May 12 article:
Take the new “Birds and Bees Text Line” in North Carolina. As with similar programs popping up around the nation, it offers “anonymous” sexual advice to teens through the texting feature on their cellular phones. Children can text any sex question and within 24 hours a stranger will send them back an answer.
Paid for partly with tax dollars, the owners promise frank and “nonjudgmental” answers – and secrecy from mom and dad. Marketed directly to teens through outlets like MySpace, they seek to teach your children their views about sex and sexuality without your knowledge.
Hagelin offers some sage advice to parents in how to deal with this new threat to teen purity. If you have texting teens or tweens in your household, take time to read the article, won’t you?
HT: LifeNews.com.
