To the parents here keep an eye on your kids phones when they hit puberty and after
The study was done in Southeast Texas, so numbers would vary country wide. Here's the lanks to the article and study if you want to delve deeper.
Teenage Sexting Is Becoming The Norm | TechCrunch
JAMA Network | Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine | Teen Sexting and Its Association With Sexual BehaviorsTeen Sexting and Sexual Behaviors
1. White kids love sexting. More than any other demographic (Hispanic, African American, and Asian), white students reported sexting in the highest percentage (35%), nearly double that of Asians (19). African Americans were a somewhat distant second at 27%, followed by Hispanics (21%), and Asians.
2. Several million teens could be held liable for child pornography, as some states do not define inappropriate sexual behavior as only between an adult and a minor. The prevalence of sexting has put some experts in the awkward position of pressing for laxer child pornography laws, so that curious teenagers arent branded as pedophiles.
3. If you find sexting pics sent from your kids phone, theres a strong possibility that he or she is sexually active. 77% of girls and 82% of boys who had reported sending a sext were also no longer virgins.
4. Gender stereotypes hold true with new technology: boys are bothered by being asked to sext much less than girls. Nearly all girls (~95%) were at least a little bothered by sexting requests and roughly 30% were bothered a great deal. Yet, nearly half of all boys didnt mind at all, and less than 5% were bothered a great deal. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
5. The suburbs arent safe from the trend either: socio-economic status had virtually no effect on whether teens sexted. Parents with a high school diploma or less were only 2% more likely to have sexting teens compared to those with at least some college.
The study was done in Southeast Texas, so numbers would vary country wide. Here's the lanks to the article and study if you want to delve deeper.
Teenage Sexting Is Becoming The Norm | TechCrunch
JAMA Network | Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine | Teen Sexting and Its Association With Sexual BehaviorsTeen Sexting and Sexual Behaviors