I am in complete agreement. We really need to do a better job of protecting our children in this country. We should start by boycotting the electronic media (T.V., Movie Industry, advertisement) who are constantly sexualizing our youth. And for those who cry 1st Amendment, to hell with them. Get rid of the sexual exploitation of children on T.V. and out of the movie theatre's.
Two days ago, I hawe watched fashion report from france, and they are rguing about low jeans, short T-shirts and thongs should they be prohibited in schools, and one lady that works in butiqe said "We have thong models for girls age 10 (then)"
Hmmmm.... I will ad this news from East European Ping List:
BELARUSIAN PRESIDENT WANTS TO DISCIPLINE BAD PARENTS
Alyaksandr Lukashenka said at a government conference on August 30 that careless parents should fully compensate the state for the maintenance of their children, Belapan reported. "If neglectful parents cannot raise healthy descendants, drink heavily, and lead an immoral life, the state must take the children from such families and take care of them," Lukashenka said. "But such parents, if they can be called so, would be held fully responsible. They should fully compensate for the expenses on the maintenance of their children, until the last kopeck is recovered," he added. According to the Belarusian president, if such neglectful parents do not manage to earn the necessary $120 per month for the maintenance of a child, they should be forced to do so and even assigned to forced labor. "Send them [bad parents] to collective farms, to construction sites, to menial work, regardless of their profession and education. Let them work 24 hours per day, seven day per week, 360 days per year," Lukashenka told his ministers. JM
Sometimes I admire dictators...
I don't have children of my own, although I have godchildren and I have taught middle school. But for the life of me, I cannot understand why every parent in this country isn't camped out on the steps of their State capital demanding that legislators pass laws to better protect children against sexual predators -- and refuse to go home until they do! This "catch & release" program for sexual predators is absolute nonsense.
As for children who are predators-in-training -- that is a lack of parental supervision and interest. Something is going on in their own home that isn't right. It isn't TV & movies per se that is the problem -- it is a lack of supervision of what TV the children watch and what movies parents let them see. All too often, parents use TV, movies and the internet as "a babysitter" for their children.
There is far too large a generation of feral (wild) children today -- children who basically are raising themselves because their parents ignore all but their physical needs --so the kid never learns how to positively relate and have empathy for others, because everyone in the family is just "out for themselves". Many parents pay less attention to their kids than I do to my dogs!