Digital Smarts - Protecting Your Teen From Porn

There has been a lot of recent press about teens and pornography. The Internet has made explicit pictures and videos widely accessible to anyone, including your teen, and the numbers are growing. In 2001 there were approximately 70,000 porn websites, whereas today there are over 40 million. 25 percent of all internet searches are porn related and over a third of downloads are pornographic. So how do you address this with your teenager? Raychelle Lohmann writing in the Teen Angst blog on the Psychology Today web site has a variety of suggestions, including what you need to discuss with your teen and how not to overreact.