Teens and Pornography: The Frightening New Addiction
*Names have been changed to protect privacy
Looking back, *Tom remembers the morning the nightmare began. It was 5:30 a.m. Summer vacation meant his 15-year-old son, *Jason, should be sleeping in. Instead, Tom was surprised to find him at the family computer. He was even more stunned when he saw what his son was doing.
"He was looking at porn," Tom says. Specifically, Jason was watching child pornography. "It was about as hard core as you could get."
Jason was ashamed and embarrassed and promised his parents he would never do it again. They thought their son was "just curious" and believed him. The family had recently moved and the computer's filtering system was down. Tom installed a new blocking program and made sure it was working.
They were devastated when they discovered their son, on at least two other occasions, had hacked through the system to find porn.
In the meantime, Jason was spiraling downward at school. Formerly a straight 'A' student, the teen began failing his accelerated classes.
"We suspected drug use," Tom recalls. He began drug testing his son and carefully monitoring his behavior and friends. Every drug test turned up negative.
"He proceeded to get worse until it reached a point where we couldn't get him to do anything at home. He wouldn't even take a shower, brush his teeth, or get ready for school," Tom remembers.
You can read the rest of Jason's story at http://www.oxbowacademy.net/blog
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