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Class is in Session!

Parents need to take the lead. We sat down with Jane Lynch last week in San Diego to talk with her about her latest project on Text Ed. Visit LGTextEd.com to find out more about this project and the collaboration with our friend Rosalind Wiseman.

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Sexting and teens: Safe sex or child porn?

NEWPORT NEWS — A teenage girl stands in front of a bathroom mirror. She wants to make her boyfriend happy, so she relents to his request. She snaps a picture of her naked body with a cell phone and sends him the image.

This is how a typical “sexting” episode begins. It often ends with the girl’s boyfriend resending her picture to countless friends, some of whom post the images on the Internet. Sexting is a growing trend among teens nationally, as well as on the Peninsula, as teenagers under-estimate the long-term effects of it, authorities say.

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