Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m. How is that? By law they can't just arrest you willy nilly, but realistically police can arrest you for whatever they want on trumped up charges. Receiving a report of harassing minors may actually be enough reason for an arrest. It is difficult to compare child molestation rates between countries, but there is little reason to believe that America does better despite having far harsher punishments. Outrage and moral hysteria rarely lead to good outcomes. No district attorney is going to be re-elected by preventing child abuse. Their motivation is to fill prison cells instead.

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So how can parents discuss dating and sex with their sexually active kids in a healthy way? Melistas offers some advice. She adds that parents should discuss the emotional consequences that come along with being sexually active — as well as pregnancy, the risks of STDs, when and where it is appropriate to have sex and the risks of sexting and social media. But it varies based on the kid. Changes in attitude, devoting all their time or becoming obsessed with one person and giving up previously loved activities are all warning signs, too.
I t's so unfair. No one understands you. People who actually have no idea tell you what to do all the time. About anything. No one is there when you discover something completely weird about the world. Not all the time. Some of the time. There are experts in adolescence, apparently. There are manuals that are fine if you accept that you just need to change the settings on teenagers until their lights flash on and off.
A Michigan mother held back tears Monday as she was sentenced to prison for luring two teenage boys by using Snapchat and then having sex with them -- incidents she called the "biggest regret" of her life. Brooke Lajiness, 38, was sentenced to a minimum of four years and nine months in prison, according to MLive. The mother of two children could serve a maximum of 15 years in prison. Brooke Lajiness, of Chelsea, Mich. Lajiness lured the teenage boys, who were 14 and 15 at the time, by sending them naked pictures of herself on Snapchat and then having late-night sexual encounters near their parents' homes while sitting in her car, investigators said.