More than a quarter of teens who’ve have a boyfriend or girlfriend say they’re sometimes digitally abused by their significant other, according to research from the Urban Institute’s Justice Policy Center. Abuse can include things such as digitally stalking their boyfriends or girlfriends, posting embarrassing photos of them or pressuring them online for sex. Girls are more likely to be abused than boys, with 15 percent of girls saying they’ve suffered sexually related digital abuse. Researchers also found that digital abuse was connected to other forms of abuse. Of those who say they’d had problems with their partners online, 84 percent said they also had been psychologically abused, more than half said they’d been physically abused, and a full third say they’d been victims of sexual abuse. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Paul Asay has covered religion for The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Beliefnet.com and The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. He writes about culture for Plugged In and wrote the Batman book God on the Streets of Gotham (Tyndale). He lives in Colorado Springs with wife, Wendy, and two children. Follow him on Twitter.