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When serious safety issues conflict with social needs

I caught my fourteen-year-old sexting and I want to take his phone away forever but I also know that will socially isolate him completely.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Dangerous digital behavior requires immediate intervention that threatens to cut a teenager off from the peer connections essential to their development.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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