When images with sexual content appear on children's and young people's devices, this can pose difficult questions for parents and educational professionals. What legal requirements apply? And what can be done to document or preserve evidence? The answers depend largely on the age of the person depicted. Our article provides an overview of the most important legal principles and shows how you can support children and young people appropriately.

Shocking, gruesome and disgusting images and videos are easily disseminated on the internet. The phenomenon itself is not new. However, there are now more readily available distribution channels for these images. And the risk of being unintentionally confronted with these images has also changed and presumably increased thanks to social media platforms and messenger services. What do adults need to know about this topic and how can they help children and young people?

Many people use messenger services such as WhatsApp on a daily basis. But with RCS messages, there is a modern alternative directly on the smartphone. RCS messages are already automatically available on many devices and do not need to be installed. They add functions such as group chats, sending photos and videos, voice messages or read receipts to traditional text messages. This could be particularly exciting for parents. This is because RCS enables modern communication without children having to install additional messenger apps.

Social networks, games and streaming portals captivate young people - often to such an extent that hobbies, friendships and family pale into insignificance. Many parents in particular are concerned about their children's media consumption and feel that their daily screen time is too high. At what point does media use become too much and at what point is it an addiction? What can parents do to prevent this and when do they need to intervene? The new guidebook "Always on? Media addiction in children and young people" from klicksafe provides answers to these questions.