Monday, December 5, 2011

Another harmful myth about adolescents is debunked

Turns out, adolescents may not be the sex-crazed social mutants that many adults assume them to be.

"Just 1 percent of teens say they've created sexually explicit images and shared them, according to a new survey of 1,560 teenagers by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. About 2.5 percent of teens said they'd appeared in or created nude or nearly nude photos or videos. That's a far cry from the "22 percent of all teens are sexting" data that's been tossed around in the past few years."

Read more here:
Teens Aren't the Rampant Sexting Maniacs We Thought : Shots - Health Blog : NPR

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