By the age of 13, more than one in three children who use smartphones have been exposed to sexting, a parenting app revealed in December.
Jiminy, which enables parents to check on their children’s phone use, analysed over 54 million messages and 1.5million hours of phone usage to better understand the extent of sexting among children. Its research showed that on phones monitored by the app, one in seven children had sent or received a sexual message by the age of ten.
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The report revealed that both boys and girls had a problem with sexting, but that girls were more likely to be exposed earlier, with just under one in six (15.5 per cent) exposed to sexual messages by the age of eight.
