Social Media and Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents: Is there a link?
Megan M LandryMonique Mitchell TurnerAmita N VyasSusan F WoodPublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2017)
Although adolescents exchange SMS at high rates, parental monitoring remains vital to parent-child relationships and can moderate SMS frequency and sexual risk behaviors, despite parental influence diminishing and peer pressure and social influences increasing during adolescence.