NetFamilyNews.orgAn article in the medical journal Pediatrics this month makes significant additions to what we know about youth risk online in two areas: parenting and risk factors for older teen girls (the sample was girls 14-17). The authors of “Association of Maltreatment With High-Risk Internet Behaviors and Offline Encounters” pointed to what we already know: [...]
A just-released study from the American Academy of Pediatrics found that cyberbullying is “only rarely the sole factor identified in teen suicides.” The study’s author, John LeBlanc, MD, was quoted in the press release as saying that “cyberbullying is a factor in some suicides, but almost always there are other factors such as mental illness [...]
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