Chances are, your teenager has already seen online porn. How should you respond if you find out they are watching it? What conversations should you be having with young children to prepare them?
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Chances are, your teenager has already seen online porn. How should you respond if you find out they are watching it? What conversations should you be having with young children to prepare them?
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Young people are growing up online, just a few clicks away from explicit content. As part of a theatre project, I asked them a simple question - what do you think about it?
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It may be uncomfortable, but it’s up to parents to have age-appropriate conversations about the risks and effects of technology use - even when they’re young.
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The consumption of pornography is widespread among children, the children's commissioner says.
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Hope as we may that kids aren't seeing pornography online, new data shows they are. Experts urge families to learn more about this access and talk to kids before it shapes their views on sexuality.
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Here's what you need to know about monitoring apps, photo-scanning and — most important — talking to your teen about their digital boundaries and sexual values.
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Privilege. Porn. Parent-free parties. An alcohol-fuelled climate in which being nice to girls is considered uncool. A wave of sexual assault allegations involving students from some of our top private schools underlines the need to foster a healthier brand of manhood. WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT.
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Easily accessible online pornography is no substitute for open and honest sex education. Such was the consensus among psychologists and educators this past week after brutally honest and heartbreaking comments from singer Billie Eilish about exposure to porn at a young age.
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Grammy-winning singer Billie Eilish has spoken about an addiction to watching pornography, starting at age 11, and how it gave her nightmares and messed her up when she started dating.
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Today’s TTT is about whether including the topic of porn in sex education should happen or not is a keen way of instigating dialogue with tweens and teens about porn. And remember, smartphones are unfortunately an easy portal into porn, so nudging ourselves to talk more frequently about porn is so important — these are not easy conversations to have.
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I teach sex ed. In light of a recent report on exploitation of children on the site Pornhub, I have some talking points for parents.
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Courses to train young people to be ethical consumers of porn have a hugely complex task ahead of them.
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I teach sex ed. In light of a recent report on exploitation of children on the site Pornhub, I have some talking points for parents.
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Make sure your kids know that if they do see something that upsets them, you won’t be angry at them for telling you about it.
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When it comes to discussing pornography and sexuality with their children, parents have to learn to be quiet and listen.
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Parents have a responsibility to protect their young from increasingly explicit online content
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We can teach young people to respond more critically to pornography, helping them assess and respond to pornography’s influence.
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Alexander Rhodes, the founder of the community-based porn recovery website NoFap, describes his struggle with porn and why he thinks more parents need to have an upgraded version of "the talk."
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A generation is growing up with online pornography. What impact is it having on them – and how should parents handle it?
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'Parents need to be on top of this, because social media outlets are not doing enough. '
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#dropboxlinks has gone viral after hundreds of users posted memes about the tag’s concerning material.
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Many teens will be exposed to it anyway—often unintentionally—and they need the guidance of their parents to process what they’ve seen.
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The parents had previously been diligent about setting viewing controls on devices.
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A new survey suggests that porn might be a more influential form of sex education for kids than their parents may think.