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Issue 8 - May 2011
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In this issue...
- Do Your Kids Think You're a Hypocrite?
- Why Filters Alone Don't Cut It
- New Privacy Risk With Smartphone Photos
- Straight Talk to Husbands Who Watch Porn
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Do Your Kids Think You're a Hypocrite?
Why Modeling Accountability Speaks Louder than Words
 By Sam Black
Monkey see, money do. Generations of parents have known that good parenting starts with being a good role model, but now we have the science to prove it.
When it comes to sex, drugs, smoking, morals - and yes, Internet use - parents have more influence than they might think. Even babies smile because they mirror what they see from their parents, said Dave Brown, PureHOPE's Director of Counseling and Support. Read more...
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More than 50% of teens and nearly 30% of children are able to surf the Web without any supervision at all.
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| Why Filters Alone Don't Cut It
Internet Safety Expert Donna Rice Hughes Helps Parents Talk to Kids |
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By Luke Gilkerson Unregulated pornography online is graphic and effortless to find. Sexual predators have easy and anonymous access to kids. Law enforcement are limited in their abilities to protect children in cyberspace. Kids regularly engage in risky behavior on the Internet. And parents are often overwhelmed and uninformed. It is no surprise Donna Rice Hughes, president and CEO of Enough is Enough, says kids can easily be drawn into this "perfect storm." Read more... |
| New Privacy Risk With Smartphone Photos
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By Kari Glemaker Multi-function capabilities are among the best features of smartphones. Instead of taking a digital camera, video recorder, laptop computer, and MP3 player on vacation, I just pack my smartphone and have all the same functions covered. In fact, some cell phones have cameras with more mega pixels than my current digital camera. And unlike my digital camera, a picture taken on my cell phone can even be directly e-mailed or uploaded to my various social networks.
This seems great...but did you know those photos can give details about their exact location? Read more... |
| Straight Talk to Husbands Who Watch Porn |
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By Luke Gilkerson Shelli remembers well the day her husband John called her up to confess his secret obsession with pornography. Years of guilt, shame, and wasted time had finally taken its toll on John, and the emotional dam broke. He knew he needed to tell his wife the truth. "It took me by complete surprise," she says, "I didn't have any clue that it was even an issue." But after the shock came the hurt. "There was definitely a death of all that I thought was real," Shelli says. "Everything that we had had prior to that felt artificial...that I was believing a lie, that I didn't know him, and I didn't know who he really was, and the way he felt about me was a big lie." Read more... |
