Challenging childhood, challenging children: Children's rights and sexting

Sexualities

Volumn 16, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 690-709

  Simpson, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomy; childhood; law; sexting; social media; youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883433105     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363460713487467     Document Type: Article

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