PORN WASHED OVER YOUTH
By J. Grant Swank, Jr.
MichNews.com
Jan 31, 2006

More than a decade after the American public started cruising the Web, it is clear that children can find everything from nudity to sites featuring sexual violence and other extremes. For parents, this creates challenges that never existed before: how to keep porn away from young eyes, and what to do when safety measures fail.

"'Kids are exposed to this at incredibly early ages, when their brains are going through profound developmental changes,' says Michael Bradley of Philadelphia, a psychologist and author specializing in childhood and adolescence. 'This has caught parents off guard. (Porn) has always been there, but it's always been in a lower volume,' according to Linda Spillers, AP. The rest


Another Warning for Parents About On-Line Pornography
Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 at 2:11 am ET
Albert Mohler

Janet Kornblum of USA Today warns parents that children as young as grade school are often exposed to on-line pornography.

In "Porn 'Tidal Wave' Puts Parents to Test," she advises: If your child surfs the Web, chances are he or she already has seen pornography -- maybe even hard-core porn. More than a decade after the American public started cruising the Web, it is clear that children can find everything from nudity to sites featuring sexual violence and other extremes. For parents, this creates challenges that never existed before: how to keep porn away from young eyes, and what to do when safety measures fail. the rest