The world has gone through rapid change in the last 20 years. One of the greatest technological advancements of last two decades has been the widespread usability of the Internet. The World Wide Web has radically changed the way we communicate, do business, organize finances, purchase merchandise and services, and find information. This change has [...]
I originally wrote this post as a guest blogger on ForcedExile.com. Special thanks to Erin for asking me to write it.
Of course porn is literally a four-letter word. But the expression “four-letter word” has been used in the last century to refer to words that are vulgar, obscene, and sexually explicit. For many years “porn” [...]
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 [...]
Everyone’s heard of Internet filtering. For children using the Internet, filtering may be one of the best tools we have to protect their young minds from stumbling on questionable, objectionable, and pornographic content online.
But even the best filters only address part of a widespread problem. Many children can easily learn how to get around a filter: [...]
