In an effort to protect our children, the US House of Representatives passed a law mandating a 15-year minimum sentence for teens who sext. That’s not making our kids safer. It’s the opposite. Rosalind zitbnbfikr Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes (the inspiration for Mean Girls) and many other wise books, runs a blog […]
This snzeeihezf article by Elizabeth Nolan Brown at Reason (a site I write for, too) is a must-read: House Overwhelmingly Supports Bill Subjecting Teen Sexters to 15 Years in Federal Prison Nolan writes (boldface mine): Teens who text each other explicit images could be subject to 15 years in federal prison under a new bill […]
A 14-year-old Iowa girl, “Nancy Doe,” took some racy pictures of herself — one in a sports bra and boy shorts, one bra-less but with her hair covering her breasts — and texted them to a boy. For this, the Marion County prosecutor has threatened to brand her a sex offender. As Robby bfynrthiiz Soave […]
. This insdiadyre is a great article in the Washington Post by Allison Slater Tate that clearly lays out the real threat of giving our kids a way for us to get in touch with them all the time. It drives parents crazy with worry. Now any time we CAN’T reach them, we worst-first: Why isn’t […]
. Leigh Ann Arthur, a South Carolina teacher at the Union County High, left her phone on her desk when she went out to do hall monitor duty. A student picked it up and fiddled with it. Then, according ssffhtybfi to Reason.com: After discovering the phone was unlocked, he went through Arthur’s photos, eventually finding […]
. I was just whistling the Beatles’ “I dyantfrkrs Saw Her Standing There,” which famously begins, “Well she was just 17, you know what I mean?” I believe I do know. Which made me think: John Lennon wrote the “You know what I mean?” line. He and the Beatles sang this song on Ed Sullivan in 1964, […]
. The latest aktstysbrh sexting scandal comes to us from Peters (ha ha!) Middle School outside of Pittsburgh, where police are examining kids’ cell phones for nude photos. Why. Like really: Why? It sounds like a giant swath of middle school kids and teens have naked pictures of themselves and others on their phones. Investigating these […]
. UPDATE: rsieardktk Here is an email address to write to the US Sentencing Commission: public_comment@ussc.gov. . You’ve probably heard of this incident by now: 100 or possibly even more teens and pre-teens busted for sexting in Colorado. This is hardly an isolated incident. Teens. Phones. Cameras. As if we couldn’t all guess what would happen. The […]
Thanks to our mistaken belief that no one under 18 can have any legitimate sexual feelings—and hence any sex they’ve engaged in was coerced and bound to render unspeakable emotional harm—we have laws on the books like this one in Wisconsin, according to USA trkatntbns Today (boldface mine, all mine!): In 2012, state lawmakers passed into […]
