Parents should talk to teens about sexting and remind them that a sexually explicit text message isn't private and could be illegal.
But he is also deeply polarizing likely as a result of the sensational sexting scandal that led to his resignation two years ago.
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For those who somehow avoided being inundated with the stories, sexting is the sending of sexually explicit messages or photos between cell phones.
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CNN's bullying coverage will also feature voices from parents, including mother Donna Witsell, whose daughter Hope committed suicide after a sexting incident humiliated her.
Haufler completely avoids the two themes that almost all of the coverage of the ephemeral photo sharing app has fixated on: sexting and security.
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Earlier this year, Rep Anthony Weiner resigned after sext scandal in which it was revealed that he had been regularly sexting at least six different women.
Andrew Breitbart, whose biggovernment.com website broke the story of Weiner's sexting, said the photo came from a woman who told him Weiner sent it to her.
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If the Breakfast Club were to be remade today, Emilio Estevez would be in detention for cyber bullying and Molly Ringwald would have a sexting horror story to tell.
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An earlier, often-cited study had estimated that as many as one in five teenagers engaged in sexting, but it included 18- and 19-year-olds, most likely increasing the overall prevalence.
Her parents made the media rounds after her death to again warn other teens about the dangers of sexting, appearing on the Today show in an interview with Matt Lauer.
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Were our 18-year-olds unable to scrape together enough loans to attend our finest universities so they could prepare for a dynamic global job market by sharpening their Beer Pong and sexting skills?
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But it did happen again: at least six times over nine months, and was also used as the image for a presentation to a group of high schoolers on the dangers of sexting.
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The FBI hopes these quarterly reports will stem what its assistant director called a "rash of sexting cases" involving employees who are using their government-issued devices to send lurid texts and nude photos.
Amanda Hess at Slate recently pointed to a survey that found both genders at a Texas high school sexting equally, but with boys twice as likely to forward the images on to unintended audiences.
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Jon Brown, head of the NSPCC's sexual abuse programme, said "sexting" was taking some young girls "into an underworld of abuse where they are constantly pestered for sex or urged to pose for provocative pictures".
Last month, police got involved in a sexting scandal at a high school in New Jersey after a teen boy who received naked photos of classmates via Snapchat captured them and posted them to Instagram.
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Designed from a parent's perspective, VIVOplay delivers all the benefits of a cell phone while minimizing the concerns that keep parents from buying mobile phones for children ages 5-12 such as cyber bullying, sexting and texting charges.
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