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Has Your Child Been Exposed to Pornography?

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What happened to Maddie, a mom of two boys, one afternoon has no doubt happened to countless other parents across the country.  Maddie's computer was out of juice, so she hopped on her 15-year-old son's laptop. She looked at the history of something she was working on and then, bam. There were links to 40 porn sites with topics too racy for me to print.  "I was freaking out," said Maddie, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy and her son's.  She immediately did something she has never done before during her nearly two decades as a parent: called her husband out of an extremely important client meeting.  "I thought, 'Oh, my God, we need to talk about this,' " Maddie said. "There's nothing I can't handle with the kids. ... This I cannot handle," she added, remembering how she felt at the time. (Wallace, 2015) With today’s growing technology of iPad’s, notebooks, and smartphones, your child could be just a cli...

Social Media Introduction and Overview

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Certain words and phrases have crept into our vocabulary that are so common to adolescents while some adults are still trying to figure out what they mean.  Words like tweet, meme, hashtag, swipe right, and regram are part of a daily conversation in the new social norm. Socializing is far more than just being at school, on a sports team, or playing with neighbor friends.  Socialization has dramatically moved to a 3x5 inch screen, or whatever the size of your latest iPhone upgrade is. Are parents fully aware of what their child is looking at in this new social world? To give you an idea of how involved adolescents are in social media, the following statistics were taken from a study done in December 2016 of 790 teens ages 13-17 throughout the United States (NORC, 2017). The following are percentages of teens who had an account on these apps: Instagram: 76% Snapchat: 75% Facebook: 66% (down from 71% in 2015) Twitter: 47% Tumblr, Twitch, LinkedIn: Less than ...