In a new trend spreading across America, teens are sending nude or semi-nude pictures to one another on their mobile phones in a practice called “sexting”.
But what started out as risqué fun among adolescents has spread fast, and is starting to lead to serious consequences. Recently, teenagers have been arrested on child pornography charges and there have been reports of high-schoolers losing jobs or college scholarships as a result of being identified in sexually-suggestive pictures that have appeared on the internet.
I point you to this article for two reasons. One, I want you to know that this is a very popular trend amongst the teenage population in this country. Two, I want you to pray for the UK and the pastors and missionaries who are working in that godless country. Scroll down to the bottom of the preceeding story and read the comments that have been posted by England's citizens. Most of them express their disgust with America's "prudishness" in it's handling of the sexting trend rather than with the moral and ethical impasse our country's teeangers find themselves at.
If you want to be bold, pick up your child's cell phone sometime and thumb through their pictures. Scroll through their inbox and outbox to see what they're discussing with their friends. If you find something objectionable, address it with your child. You are not doing them any favors by granting them "freedom" to "express" themselves- you may simply be passively permitting them to sin.
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