The topic of teenage romance and sex has always been charged, but today’s pervasive digital technology has succeeded in turning up the wattage. Some parents have an easy and open channel with their adolescent around all things amorous while other find the subject painfully awkward and try to avoid it altogether. Regardless of where you and your teenager sit on this spectrum, the digital world puts a new spin on some of the timeless challenges of coming age.

1. Lower Tamugan National High School
How Technology
Changes Teen
Romance

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3. The topic of teenage romance and sex has
always been charged, but today’s pervasive
digital technology has succeeded in turning up
the wattage. Some parents have an easy and
open channel with their adolescent around all
things amorous while other find the subject
painfully awkward and try to avoid it altogether.
Regardless of where you and your teenager sit
on this spectrum, the digital world puts a new
spin on some of the timeless challenges of
coming age.
How Technology Changes Teen Romance
Adolescence
By Lisa Damour Sept. 21, 2017
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4. Young people have always been curious about sex,
and when our teenagers have questions, the
internet is usually their first stop, for worst and for
better. Adolescents can and do find highly explicit
sexual material online, and an emerging body of
research tells worrisome story about the place of
pornography in young people’s lives.
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5. On a more positive note teenagers also turn to the
internet for information about relationships and
sexual health. Indeed, a recent report found that
rates of teenage births and sexually transmitted
infections dropped in communities as high-speed
internet access improved.
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6. Parents should consider talking with their teenager
about abusive relationship, and a conversation about
digital mistreatment would be a good place to start.
In a recent survey, more than half of adolescent girls
and boys had dated someone who tried to monitor
or control them by texting so frequently that it
made the recipient uncomfortable, expecting
immediate responses, asking for
their password, or tracking their
location or
social activity.
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7. In talking with the teenagers about coercive
relationships, we should acknowledge that “if
someone wants to know what you are doing all the
time, that can feel a really close relationships” but
that healthy romances are grounded in trust and
support, not spying or intimidation
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8. Relationships can become
round-the-clock affairs.
It’s hard to imagine that anything could up the
intensity of a teenager’s first love, but digital
technology seems to have done to job. When
adolescents in my practice talk about their happy
romances, I’m often amazed at how completely their
lives are saturated by them
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9. Relationships can become
round-the-clock affairs.
Technology adds some new twists to the age-old
roller coater of teenage romance. Our adolescents
may know more than we do about the online world,
but we know more about the romantic one.
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10. SOCIAL: BEFORE and NOW

11. “There is a very big role each
teenager has which they are an
apprentice for the future.
Without them, there is no
replacement for senior to
administer the country”

12. Lower Tamugan NHS
Computer Wizards