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Chances are, that by the time your kids hit their teens, they’ll have cell phones burning holes in their hot little pockets. Cell phones with cameras. Some of them will almost certainly use those cameras to take nude or sexually explicit photos of themselves, their girlfriends, or that guy on the back of the bus that dared them to do it.
Then a few will use the magic of modern cellular networks to forward those pictures to their crushes, their friends, or just maybe their entire English class.
And unless current laws change, they’ll be creating and trafficking in child pornography when they do it. Those are federal felony charges that can send kids to prison, and create criminal records that will haunt them for life.
How can you persuade your kids not to sexts? Anne Collier talks to Lenore Skenazy and the crew at Free Range Kids about sexting, kiddie porn, and what parents can do.
A child advocacy group based in Palm Beach, Florida is asking organizers of Super Bowl XLIV to send Pete Townshend packing. The Who is scheduled to play during the game’s half-time show on February 7.
The issue, says AbuseWatch.net, lies with Townshend’s 2003 arrest for accessing and viewing a child pornography website.
“I’m a fan of the band, I grew up with The Who. Pete Townshend is the only issue, and the issue is that he’s a former registered sex offender,” AbuseWatch spokesperson Evin Daly told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “The issue is, it sends the wrong message to American families.”
By it’s very nature, the idea behind child pornography is chilling. So how does it get worse?
When statistics come out that point the finger for child porn straight at parents. In a Tampa Bay-based story about a series of parents arrested on child porn charges came this demoralizing statistic: Continue reading »
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