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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: Patriot on November 10, 2010, 10:15:34 AM

Title: Calling all parents... what are your children doing?
Post by: Patriot on November 10, 2010, 10:15:34 AM
Sex, drugs more common in hyper-texting teens

By MIKE STOBBE

ATLANTA (AP) - Teens who text 120 times a day or more - and there seems to be a lot of them - are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol and drugs than kids who don't send as many messages, according to provocative new research.

The study's authors aren't suggesting that "hyper-texting" leads to sex, drinking or drugs, but say it's startling to see an apparent link between excessive messaging and that kind of risky behavior.


Read the entire article here:  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101109/D9JCGVC01.html