Redistributing the pictures that little punk *** should be charged! Kids sending pics like that is no different than them having sex. It's between them and no one else. Resending the pics to your friends or online is a punk move, no different than filming you having sex w her and showing your friends. Good parenting can prevent most of these situations....but I disagree w the parents that are now switching to lockdown mentality. No phone, no Facebook, etc... In my personal experiences w friends, this style parenting just pushes your kids farther away into wanting to do deviant stuff. Teaching kids common sense is the lost art these days.
This is my opinion and my opinion only but, If they didn't have it to do in the first place there would be absolutely no reason it would happen. There is no reason a child should be doing it period. They don't have the ability to think far enough ahead to realize someone else will end up with it. They are just not mature enough to handle it period. Thats my opinion and mine only. If others agree then its their opinion.
Greenhousing is wrong .... if that's what your saying, T ... allowing certain things is good ... as long as it's monitored .....
I agree with what your saying except that sex is no different than the pics. the guy can say he had sex with the girl regardless if it is true or not and the girl can refute it and so on. Once the pic is taken and sent there is no refuting that. Now if he took the pic and then sent it out to his friends, that is a punk move and he should be punished. when you take a pic of yourself and then send it to someone it is fair game to be sent to whomever. The way you don't get pics sent around of you, is not take them in the first place. granted it is still bad to send them in any form but IMO if you stop it at the source there is no issue with the being sent.
Then the girl should be charged to begin with because she is the initial one sending it. The whole reason for my post is parents need to take a more active role in their kids lives. I am a youth Pastor and deal with the teenagers on a daily basis. The major issue I see with this is the ones initiating the texts are not getting any backlash whatsoever and trying to blame it on the other kid. IMO some of the Responsibility placed back on the girl. Yes the kid that distributes it to his friends should be punished, but not labeled as a sex offender.
I have a novel idea .... how about parents start parenting again .... not letting their kids run the house ....
And there lies the complicated part. IMO, even though they are young and dumb, she sent it to a single person whom she thought would keep it private....and its a picture of herself. Once he passes it on, its distribution of child porn.
I agree, ultimately it comes down to what Tony said, parents need to be parents. I try like hell to make sure I know as much as possible about what is going on in my sons life without completely sufficating him. There is a fine line there, I tend to error on the side of suffocation. Have you guys been to a cell store recently? Unfortunetly I was a few weeks ago and they only had 2 phones that weren't smart phones, and even they have cameras and picture texting capabilities. The key is that the kids know the difference between right and wrong and that there are conciquences when they choose wrong.
Now that I agree with. I feel another part of the problem is technoligy and the parrents don't know half of what it can do. The kids do. It still goes back to the whole parents need to be just that, Parents. Too many want to be the friends. I know there is a fine line but, there still has to be a line.
It's a good thing I did not have a smart phone as a teenager. My dong would be all over the internet by now.
Although I think "sexting" is a really poor choice for a teen, I don't think it should be illegal if it is sent to another consenting teen. Now, if the teen receiving the "sext" did not want to receive it, then I believe there should be a charge like "indecent exposure" for the teen sending the unwanted "sext". I always try to look at things through the Constitution when analyzing these types of issues. And in this case I see a teen sending a naked picture of themselves to another consenting teen as a freedom of speech thing. I believe if we want to change people then we as a society need to put pressure on them and not always use laws to force people into actions. We have gone way overboard with the amount of laws we make and have given up on the face to face/peer to peer/positive adult role model as a means to help mold young people. I am a "means to the end" kind of guy even when it is difficult process as opposed to a quick fix guy who just wants to make a law to force people to stop their actions. Rant over.
