I’m the parent of a six-year-old, so we’ve been dealing with the question of “outside influences” for a little while now. He will always be exposed to values and material with which we don’t agree, and we are working hard to teach him what OUR values are so he can make informed, moral choices and decisions. I really don’t want ANY authority making those choices for me and my family; I want to control those decisions myself.
Isn’t that an essentially American value?
Outside influences become very pervasive and powerful, especially through movies. Dobson and many evangelicals know how hard it is to raise a child in todays world. All studies pointed to the secular humanist moral relativism which is in all the public school curricula and extremely hard to avoid. It is so pervasive that Dobson told Christian parents to take their kids out of the public school system a decade ago.
The movies and TV are also conduits of the atheism. It is very subtle, but to be a successful parent you have to be able to identify what cultural Marxism is and who founded it—what Freudian Marxism is designed to do (it established political correctness) and that it is inserted into our culture to destroy family and Christianity.
You need to have total control, that is why I think parents should be able to edit videos, so not expose children to an objectionable words or idea. Ideas and worldview is everything! There will always be some things that get through, which is ok—good for learning...it is just the 24/7 messages that are so prevalent in our pop culture today that destroy the ability to believe in God and have healthy relationships, especially with a mother and father.