Sexting. What??

S e x t i n g. This is when teens use their phones to send naked pictures of themselves to their friends. This is also child pornography. The question is, who should be accused?
Well, let's see:
1. The kids? Well, if you were the teen, and you are sending a picture of yourself to your boyfriend/girlfriend of the week, is this pornography? not in their eyes. Then, let's say the good times are over and you broke up, then he/she sends that picture to his/her friends. Now it is all over the internet, it may be used as harrassment, and he/she gets cought for this and voila..it is on his/her record for 10 years, and they are listed as sex offenders. If this scenario happens when you were 14, at 24 he/she can't find a job because they have sex offender on their record. WHAT????? So kids (13.14.15...) are sex offenders already when they send this picture of themselves to friends who have already seen them naked two billion times before? From a legal stand point, yes.

2. The parents? Parents need to know where the kids are, so they buy them a cell phone. Kids end up sexting their friends and their friends send these pictures to EVERY contact on their phone. This list includes adults, and so adults and parents get pictures of some naked kid on their cell phone. Now they are involved in child pornography. OR, your child is too lazy to go upstairs and find their phone, so they use your phone to sext their friends and they respond. All of a sudden you are a pedophile. WHAT???? So you are minding your own business and your phone receives (or sends) pictures of naked kids, and now you are in the middle of this mess? From a legal stand point, there is no way to prove that you didn't do it on purpose, right? so, yes.

Hmmmmm, this is getting very tricky. If someone wants to do harm to someone else's reputation, it doesn't take very much at all until this legal mess is sorted out. Legal courts, you've got quite a bit of ironing to do.

I have a couple of questions. With all that's happening in the world now, and it doesn't seem to be stopping or slowing down anytime soon:
1. What did our parents really protect us from growing up, by comparison?
2. How could we protect our children from this mess that just keeps piling up?