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Instead of Scaring Parents, How About Giving Them The REAL Facts?

View the article here 02/01/2009 How to Protect Your Children Online Report Finds Online Threats to Children Overblown: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/us/14cyber.html Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies: Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/isttf/ Or why not tell parents who is considered a "sex offender" in America today, it could easily be them or their teenager. This is the story you should be reporting. The below was written for the state of Virginia but it applies to every state. Are Virginians Aware? Are Virginians aware that their teenagers are having consensual sex which could result in the older teen being convicted of sexual assault, battery or rape, a prison sentence and being listed on the Sex Offender Registry for 15 years, 20 years or for a lifetime? Are Virginians aware that their teenagers are e-mailing and texting nude photos of themselves and others? This could result in both teens being charged with creating, distributing and possessing pornography with time in prison and being listed on the Virginia Sex Offender Registry...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 01, 2009 (boomark / email).