Metmom, take a look, this affects homeschoolers as well.Any parent that lets a kid have a PC/laptop NOT in the living room where it can be monitored is asking for trouble.
Likewise the cell phone/PDA history, etc, should be checked twice a week at least.
Metmom, take a look, this affects homeschoolers as well.Decimation of the schools, destruction of the Church and moral structure, and degradation of the youth. This was all part of the KGB’s massive cultural infiltration from 1958 through the late 1980s. When “the wall fell” we thought we won the Cold War. But we lost completely. They destroyed America from within, and those leading our nation now were Soviet acolytes then. It would take another 40 year purge to remove all the tentacles from education, entertainment, and the civil service. Americans have no idea whatsoever how deeply we were betrayed.
Thank you Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky! (sarc/off)
But I have NEVER seen anything illegal regarding children or animals.
Of course, I've never sought out such garbage, so I don't know what's available to those who do seek out illegal stuff.
There is lots of porn which is illegal in the US but legal in the UK. Restraint with penetration, for instance.
I don't have any problem with adults accessing porn involving other consenting adults, but children obviously cannot consent, so that sort of thing I would think would be illegal in virtually any country.
In the US, they will nail someone to the wall for possessing illegal images, and, as a staunch libertarian, I say deservedly so.
Libertarians are not anarchists. They believe in Unalienable rights, and that certainly includes fiercely protecting the innocent (such as children) from having their rights violated.
There are plenty of "law and order" libertarians out there.
“Where were they all summer?”
No, they weren’t all sitting at home. Lots of them are shipped off to every damn “activity” in desperate pursuit of being “rounded” and “learning teamwork” and “hard work”. Not just “camp” as in overnight, but simply every day driving there.
None of this has worked, obviously. Total BS. We are more dysfunctional than ever, and this kind of thing has been rampant for 30 years now.
In my ‘hood, which has plenty of kids, Summer can be pretty quiet, too. But school time is really amazing. The most you will see kids having free play outside is AFTER school, literally. Weekends, silence. No kids - they are shipped off to basketball and lacrosse and all that garbage.
Anything to avoid them learning to a) calm down, be peaceful b) live with family and every-day issues, and for the parents to have to deal with them directly.
I teach piano to a 10 year old boy who is ADHD.
Every lesson, I had to pry the tablet from his (warm, living) hands amid screams and howls of agony from him, which are not unlike withdrawal symptoms from opiates.
It makes me dread Tuesdays.
Yikes!
I dont think Mr. Marin is going to be invited to any neighborhood events. Hes just accused his neighbor’s kids of being porn addicts.
I think it’s way past time for a chastisement to make Ebola look like kids’ play (especially n the western world). And libertarians should be spared just long enough to make them suffer through the worst of it.
Sometimes the challenge is convincing adults that the stuff is damaging.
Just watch any cable tv show and some network crap.
We have made the decision, as a society, to promote the moral view that sex outside of marriage is normal, healthy, and desirable. All secular media glorifies extramarital sex, our school system teaches that it is expected, and our government subsidizes the households containing illegitimate children who were created as a consequence. Schafly contends that support of illegitimate households comprises a majority of outlays for Federal and state benefit programs.
Can you name a person running for office on the platform of government promoted chastity? Its like finding a candidate whose platform includes slashing social security - it doesn’t happen.
If we were serious about these problems, we would elect governments dedicated to addressing them.