One of the key aspects of accountability is that it opens doors for communication. It “breaks the ice,” so to speak. It does this even for people who never get a high-scoring site, simply allowing the partner to ask the question, “How are you doing?”
Well, in this case, a son was indeed looking at pornography, [...]
Just how many teens are talking with strangers online, and how many are meeting up with those strangers?
In 2006, Cox Communications partnered with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and TV host and children’s advocate John Walsh to better understand teen online behavior, Internet safety, and the role parents play in their children’s [...]
When it comes to the subject of teens and children using chat rooms and social networking sites (such as MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and Bebo), there are two prevailing attitudes or philosophies about safety. One school of thought is more cautious about how much information a teen should post about themselves online; the other is less cautious; each school of [...]
The National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families has the mission to help Christians to embrace, live out, preserve and advance the truth of biblical sexuality. The National Coalition has been on the forefront of educating about sexual ethics, sexually purity, and recovery from the harmful effects of pornography.
iCare, a division of the [...]
The following is a guest post from Joyce Oglesby. Joyce is the author of Keeping His Pants On Until He Gets Home, a book for women about whys and hows of preserving sexual and emotional intimacy in marriage. Joyce has been a minister’s wife for more than 36 years, and is a proud mother and grandmother. Joyce is [...]
June is Internet Safety Month. The US Senate has set June aside as Internet Safety Month for the past several years because of the growing awareness of online dangers. The best tool we have to prevent these dangers from influencing our children is good education.
Here’s a Top 10 list of some past blog posts I’ve [...]
I just picked up a copy of the documentary Traffic Control: The People’s War on Internet Porn. In a word: it was excellent. I highly recommend picking up a copy.
(Watch the trailer at the bottom on this post to get a better feel of the film.)
From January to November 2006, Bryan Hall and his team traveled [...]
It’s been about one year since Covenant Eyes released its Internet filter for Windows. Many users of our accountability program wanted a filter as well, so we created one that would work hand-in-hand with our accountability service. Of course, it also works as a stand-alone filter, but it is based on the same scoring system [...]
(I wrote this post last week as a guest blogger on A Good Husband.)
I spend the bulk of my working hours surfing the Web to listen to the chatter about porn. Addicts, wives of addicts, parents of addicts, porn stars and pastors and priests, the tempted and the tried: many people are talking about how [...]
This is a 22-minute video by the Center for Safe Schools called Protecting Kids Online. It is to educate parents about the serious repercussion of cyberbullying and the dangers of online predators.
