For most kids, the social pressures of middle school are tough enough. But an increasing number of young teenagers, some as young 10 or 11, are coming out as gay or lesbian in middle school. Benoit Denizet-Lewis, who wrote about the trend in the New York Times Magazine, discusses what social factors could be leading young people to come out earlier. Today in our parenting conversation, what does it mean to come out at 13 or even younger?

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An alleged illicit sexual relationship between a Goodyear teacher and her year-old student started with a message on a school app. Las Brisas Academy elementary teacher Brittany Zamora asked her sixth-grade students to message her on an online instruction app called Class Craft because she was going to be bored at school one day. The two even sexually touched each other while oblivious students watched a video, records show. The year-old boy told a police interviewer he couldn't remember how their conversations evolved from student-teacher conversations to flirting and, eventually, exchanging I-love-yous. They talked frequently about what they wanted to do to each other, he told the interviewer.


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