Posted on 01/15/2008 6:55:08 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Amen to you. My husband and I were just talking about this (our kids are too young to be out by themselves, but this is our plan). I moved home after college for a year while in law school and my parents waited up for me every night I was out (and I was engaged). I was 22 and I had a curfew! They said if I lived there I lived by their rules. They weren’t going to go to bed until I was home, so I had to be home early enough not to ruin their sleep.
Now as a parent of two girls, I see their point!
Well, since we’re all making up statistics, I’ll aver that 99.99% of Playboy readers do not molest children, and I expect I would be correct on that statistic. Conflating the viewing of men’s magazine centerfolds with child porn/molestation is also disgusting.
Now, if the article’s author had focused on whether consumption of child porn leads to child molestation, perhaps a geniune corelation (and maybe even causation) could be found. But the author had a broader agenda.
I’m a biker who travels all summer, stopping at truck stops all over the US. Most of them aren’t big enough to support even one hooker.
Most of the others are not hooker friendly. The ones I have seen that do have hookers, do not have under age hookers. The ladies are somewhat less than lovely.
While truck stop hookers are not uncommon, I’ve never seen one who looked to be remotely close to underage, much less a slave.
OK. Good to know.
I just wonder how much money the former congress critter makes doing this.
On top of that I wonder if the taxpayers are funding this to her benifit.
Is there any way to determine if they git federal or state moneys.
My 15 yr old daughter has GPS tracking in her cell phone. I can see where she (or, at least her cell phone) is anytime of any day. When she starts driving next month, she will have a full GPS-tracking device in her vehicle so that I can see everywhere the vehicle goes, where it has been, and how fast it went, etc. While she chafes a little at this, she also has demonstrated that it makes her feel more secure knowing that her parents are watching over her for her safety.
I moved back in with my parents for a short time after college. No curfew here, but they wanted to know where I was.
I didn't think it too intrusive. Just polite to tell them "Going out, I'll be home by midnight" or "Spending the night at so-and-so's". So they wouldn't worry. I expected the same courtesy from them. :-)
Stopped reading there. I find that very hard to believe.
LOL!
Yes, I have considered that.
But if your right on that, then when both parents are told, you should be able to see some concern on one or the others face.
If mom or dad is using the pc in the 10 year old girls bedroom to look at porn, the problem is worse than even I am suggesting don’t you think?
I am sure you are correct in some cases. But I know, when the kid has the pc password protected on their own login, that the Porn on their login is their own. Especially when the parents have to ask the kid for the password, so I can do my job.
If you don’t believe porn is targeting kids of 10 to 13 years old actively these days, well I am sorry to say you have your head in the sand.
I’ve got two girls as well and the 14-year-old can already see it coming! I moved back home during law school as well, but spent most of my time studying. Stop laughing. No, really!
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Even if it is only 1 child it’s a crisis. Sex trafficking is slavery and the buying and selling of even one child is a symptom of the moral crisis in this nation.
Not to mention the never-ending crisis for the child who has been enslaved and abused. Where to they go to get their soul back?
Ha ha. Who studied in law school?/s Those were the days: when I could actually live on 3 hours of sleep and gallons of coffee!
Man, my children know NOT to ever fall for a person trying to offer a lift or a favor that sounds too good to be true but after reading this, they will get a conversation from me tonight just in case....
And do you think these kids would be allowed to keep their cell phones with them? Or be given access to a phone they could use to make a long-distance call? What are you thinking of?
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I think you’re confusing me with someone else.
That was exactly my point. The journalist's statement ("Pimps often move their human cargo across the country, making it difficult for girls to contact their families.") made absolutely no sense.
If a kidnapper has somebody locked up, it really doesn't matter if they're ten miles away or a thousand. Taking a victim across the country has almost zero effect on their ability to contact their family.
A lot of what has changed is the 24/7/365 fearmongering by the MSM.
You beat me to it.
...one of the worst things about civilization is, that anybody that gits a letter with trouble in it comes and tells you all about it and makes you feel bad, and the newspapers fetches you the troubles of everybody all over the world, and keeps you downhearted and dismal most all the time, and it's such a heavy load for a person.
-- Mark Twain
Wonder what Mark would have to say about today's state of the media?
"My mother...tells me that any child seen wandering in a truck stop at night will set drivers talking to find out who the kid belongs to and cops will be called if there is no parent present."
My point was that children who have been trafficked for sexual use would not be "wandering around" --- they'd be confined somewhere by force. It's not the same as freelance streetwalking prostitutes. It's very secretive and also brutally coercive.
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