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Developing Healthy Relationships, Sexting
Developing Healthy Relationships
Family & Youth Services Bureau: Teaching adolescents how to form safe and healthy relationships is a key part of helping them refrain from engaging in risk-taking behaviors as well as improving their reproductive health outcomes and emotional and social wellbeing. Designed to supplement your organization’s programming with middle and high school youth, this engaging lesson will provide youth with information and skills to
- identify healthy and unhealthy characteristics of relationships;
- cultivate healthy relationships of all types—with friends, romantic partners, family, classmates, teachers, coworkers, and others; and
- leave an unhealthy relationship and locate appropriate resources if they are in an unhealthy relationship.
Sexting
Texas School Safety Center: Sexting is the sending, receiving, or forwarding of sexually explicit messages or images, which occurs through text message, video, social media applications, email, webcam, or other avenues via the internet. Concerns regarding sexting began to emerge in the last decade as media and research began highlighting the possible long-term consequences.
Although sexting may appear harmless when it occurs between two consenting adults, it can result in serious criminal charges when it involves minors. Texas law identifies this activity as electronically transmitting sexual depictions of children. As technology has evolved, it has also become apparent that bullying and harassment can be both a cause and effect of sexting.
It is against the law for anyone, including a minor, to send a sexually explicit or suggestive image of someone under 18 years of age. This includes images of the sender, recipient, or another minor child.
What Parents May Think About Sexting:
- My child knows better and would never do that.
- I check my child’s phone, so I would know if they are engaging in it.
- Only promiscuous kids do that.
- I talk to my kids and they would tell me if they were sexting.
- My child does not even think about sex yet.
- My child is too young to sext.
What Young People May Think About Sexting:
- It is just flirting.
- What is the big deal? Everybody does it.
- He/she loves me; I know he/she will not share.
- They will think I am hot when they see this pic.
- If I do not send this, she/he will break up with me.
- If he/she did not want people to see it, he/she would not have sent it.