To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Provide a world-class Club Experience that assures success is within reach of every young person who enters our doors, with all members on track to graduate from high school with a plan for the future, demonstrating good character and citizenship, and living a healthy lifestyle. We believe every kid has what it takes. Believing that boys who roamed the streets should have a positive alternative, they organized the first Club.

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Sexting or "sex texting" is sending or getting sexually explicit or suggestive images, messages, or video on a smartphone or through the Internet. Most teens have various ways to get online, Smartphones, tablets, and laptops all can be used in private. It's very easy for teens to create and share personal photos and videos of themselves without their parents knowing about it.
Author Peggy Orenstein knows that talking to your son about sex isn't easy: "I know for a lot of parents, you would rather poke yourself in the eye with a fork than speak directly to your son about sex — and probably he would rather poke himself in the eye with a fork as well," she says. But we don't have "the luxury" to continue avoiding this conversation, she says. Orenstein spent 25 years chronicling the lives of adolescent and teen girls and never really expected to focus on boys. Orenstein notes that society doesn't often give boys "permission or space" to discuss their interior lives. Maybe that's why the young men she spoke to were so eager to open up: "When they had the chance [to talk], when somebody really gave it to them and wasn't going to be judgmental about what they had to say, they went for it. Orenstein says the boys she spoke with felt constrained by traditional notions of masculinity. One interviewee confided that he preferred to partner with girls for school projects because, "It was OK to say you didn't know what you were doing with a girl, and you couldn't do that with a guy. They saw girls as equals and deserving of their place on the playing field and in class and in leadership, and they had female friends. So that had really changed. But I would ask them all the time to just give me a kind of lightning round of the ideal guy.
Mostly there were the typical posts from his friends, the kind of stuff teenagers share on a Saturday night. But then, scrolling through his Stories, he saw something more sinister. A girl he knew loosely through a friend of a friend had posted a series of naked pictures. For a generation born into and immersed in social media, the boundaries of online sex are complicated. From sharing pictures with strangers on Snapchat to Instagram bots demanding nude photos, Gen-Z is on the frontline of a rapidly changing digital world. While sharing naked pictures is not a new phenomenon among young people, the platforms on which these images are shared, and who is doing the sharing, are not very well understood by the adults around them. In their research, they interviewed over young people aged