Porn Harms Events

About twice a year, Morality In Media, sponsors educational events online to help those struggling with pornography or who are interested in getting involved. Take a look at the schedule and find one that you're interested. It will be worth your time.

Tuesday – April 17th

10:30 AM EST – Online Roundtable Discussion With Experts: “Sexploited: 4 Ways Porn Damages Our Culture and 4 Necessary Steps to Bring About Change”

** Organized by Covenant Eyes

1:15 PM EST – Live Online Discussion with Former Congressman Ernest Istook:“Porn In Your Libraries and Schools: What Can Be Done?”

**Organized by Morality In Media on behalf of the Safe Schools, Safe Libraries Project

3:00 PM EST – Live Online Discussion with Addiction and Relationship Experts from POSARC: “How & Why Porn Use Hurts Partners In Such A Deeply Personal Way”

**Organized by Partners of Sex Addicts Resource Center (POSARC)

Wednesday – April 18th

11:00 PM EST – Documentary Streaming: “Somebody’s Daughter: A Journey to Freedom from Pornography”

**Organized by Somebody’s Daughter

Thursday – April 19th

1:00 PM EST – Live Online Discussion with Former Porn Prosecutor: “Why prosecute pornography? What will it take?”

**Organized by Morality In Media, on behalf of the War on Illegal Pornography Coalition

10:30 PM EST – Web Conference Discussion with author Michael Cusick: “Real Men Don’t Buy Sex”

**Organized by Restoring the Soul & Somebody’s Daughter

Friday – April 20th

1:00 PM EST – Online Roundtable Discussion For Wives & Partners of Addicts:“Hope in Heartache: Christian Women Share Stories of Love Lost Due to Pornography”

**Organized by Covenant Eyes

2:00 PM EST - Live Online Discussion with Former Porn Performer Shelley Lubben: “Trafficking in the industry! What they don’t want you to know.”

**Organized by The Pink Cross Foundation

Saturday – April 21st

10:00 AM EST - - Documentary Streaming: “Demand: A Comparative Examination of Sex Tourism and Trafficking in Jamaica, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States”

**Organized by Shared Hope International

1:00 PM EST - Live Online Discussion with Former Porn Performer and Husband: “Love After Porn: Pastor’s Son Rescues Porn Star”

**Organized by The Pink Cross Foundation

Sunday – April 22nd

10:00 AM EST - Online Presentation with Internet Safety Expert: “Creating a Healthy Digital Climate”

**Organized by iKeepSafe

Monday – April 23rd

Noon EST - Documentary Streaming: “Somebody’s Daughter: A Journey to Freedom from Pornography”

**Organized by Somebody’s Daughter

Tuesday – April 24th

7:00 PM EST - Live Online Discussion: “Recovering Teens Speak About Their Struggles with Porn Addiction”

**Organized by Voices for Virtue & Sons of Helaman

Thursday – April 26th

1:00 PM EST - Live Online Presentation with Porn Addiction Expert and Life-Coach Tony Lister: “Straight Talk: Porn’s Real Effect On Relationships and Attitudes Towards Women”

**Organized by Tony Lister and Morality In Media

Sunday – April 29th

10:00 PM EST - Documentary Streaming: “Somebody’s Daughter: A Journey to Freedom from Pornography”

**Organized by Somebody’s Daughter

AZ Law Passed to Protect Children in Schools and Libraries

The Arizona legislature recently passed a law that updates and requires among other things:

1. Libraries and schools to have filters on their internet.

2. Requires a community input meeting on how to update filters and other

safety techniques every three years.

3. If libraries and schools are not compliant with any provisions in this law,

they may lose funding, if the concerns are not brought into compliance.

A special thank you to Representative Steve Court for working with us on this law.

It is fantastic that the bill was made law, but the most important part comes now. Parents have often come to us with stories of their children encountering illegal obscene material while at schools or libraries. Then they often shrug their shoulders and go on.

Now that there is a law passed, parents have recourse. But they must report it to the school or library. Then the institution can be aware and try to comply and make their system better. They must comply. It is the law.

There is help for parents, if the parents will participate. With this law in place, we can work together to make Arizona's libraries and schools safe places for our children.

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3 Tips to Help Manage Young Children using Media

National Study from Common Sense Media Documents Media Use by Children Ages 0 to 8 Did you read to your kids today? Did you hand over your iPhone at the grocery store? If so, you're not alone. How families use media and what it means for kids' health and well-being is the subject of Zero to Eight: Children's Media Use in America, the first study by Common Sense Media's new Program for the Study of Children and Media. The report is featured in both theNew York Times and the San Francisco Chronicletoday. The study shows that everything from iPods to smartphones to tablet computers are now a regular part of kids' lives, with kids under 8 averaging two hours a day with all screen media. Among the key findings: 42% of children under 8 years old have a television in their bedroom. Half (52%) of all 0- to 8-year-olds have access to a new mobile device, such as a smartphone, video iPod, or iPad/tablet. More than a third (38%) of children this age have used one of these devices, including 10% of 0-to 1-year-olds, 39% of 2- to 4-year-olds, and more than half (52%) of 5- to 8-year-olds. In a typical day, one in 10 (11%) 0- to 8-year-olds uses a smartphone, video iPod, iPad, or similar device to play games, watch videos, or use other apps. Those who do such activities spend an average of 43 minutes a day doing so. Clearly, media has become a staple in young kids' daily lives and influences them in ways we don't yet fully understand. But by getting involved in your kid's media life, you can help them create healthy lifelong patterns that will truly make a difference in their lives:

Balance the types of media your kids are exposed to. Choose age-appropriate, quality content that reinforces your family's values. Watch, play, read, and listen with your kids. Don't underestimate the value of co-viewing

NBC Cancels The Playboy Club

Arizona Family Council teamed up with Morality in Media, Parent Television Council and over one hundred others across the country to put pressure on NBC and its advertisers to cancel this program.

It worked!

Advertisers dropped steadily as did ratings. And after just three episodes, the show was cancelled.

We appreciate all of you who sent emails, letters and rallied around www.ClosetheClubonNBC.com.

We are very gratified that our efforts to protect children, women, and families were successful.

JC Penney Ad

This letter just came out from On Million Moms - a great organization.

JC Penney has just released a new television commercial, straying far away from the namesake's values and principles.

The 30-second ad, "It is Seriously Hot in Here," negatively portrays women as little more than sexual eye-candy for a men's clothing pitch.

Please take action!

The announcer says, "We get it. Guys don't like watching ads for clothes. So here's the deal: you take a look at these great styles, we promise to show you something really awesome. That way, everybody wins."

The screen then splits with a larger part of the screen dedicated to a bikini-clad model "strutting her stuff." Just before the scene ends, she reaches up, as if undoing her top. The announcer then states, "It is seriously hot in here."

JC Penney's ad choice is blatantly disrespectful to all women, especially mothers and wives.

TAKE ACTION

Let's stop this commercial dead in its tracks. If JC Penney gets away with this, their ads will only get worse.

Make a personal phone call to JC Penney's customer service department. Tell them, unequivocally, that this ad is offensive to women and should be pulled immediately.

Their numbers are 972-431-8200 (customer service) and 972-431-1000 (corporate headquarters).

Back To School

Now that school has started again, it's a great time to sit down and review your family's media rules. Take a look here for some ideas-

Common Sense Media Agreement for Elementary

Common Sense Media Agreement for Middle School

Common Sense Media Agreement for High School

US Attorney General

US Attorney General Eric Holder publicly admits that there is a relationship between hardcore pornography and sexual trafficking and other things. Then why did he shut down the Obscenity Task Force Division in the US Attorney General's office?

Watch for yourself......

Events

Going along with our national campaign this week are several online events you may be interested in participating in. I know many of these groups and people and it will be worth your time. I am participating in Dr. Manning's webinar on Tuesday for sure. Click here for the webpage to register for these events. They are free.

Events This Week – Harms To Children:

· Monday, July 18th at 4 p.m. EDT: Live Facebook/Online Event: “Adult Porn Makes Victims Of Our Chlidren” (Morality In Media leaders)

· Tuesday, July 19th at 4 p.m. EDT: Webinar: “5 Hidden Dangers Facing You And Your Family Right Now” (Covenant Eyes)

· Tuesday, July 19th at 4 p.m. EDT: Conference Call: “Our children in a sexualized society: how to understand their experience and how to help” (Dr. Jill Manning)

· Tuesday, July 19th at 8 p.m. EDT: Webinar: “Simple Tools to Protect Your Family” (Bsecure – will also give free subscriptions to software)

· Wednesday, July 20th at 3:30 p.m. EDT: Live Facebook/Online Event: “Protecting Children Online: Know the pornographers’ tricks!” (Enough Is Enough)

· Wednesday, July 20th at 9 p.m. EDT: Live Facebook/Online Event: “How to educate young people on the harmful effects of pornography” (Fight The New Drug)

· Thursday, July 21 at 4 p.m. EDT: Webinar: “5 Hidden Dangers Facing You And Your Family Right Now” (Covenant Eyes)

· Thursday, July 21 and Sunday, July 24th All Day: Facebook: 500 FREE subscriptions to Net Nanny Filtering Software will be given away on www.facebook.com/pornharms. (Content Watch)

· Sunday, July 24th at 9 p.m. EDT: Live Facebook/Online Event: “Porn and Sex Abuse In Our Public Libraries” (Dan Kleineman)

National Awareness Campaign

Porn Harms which is run by the Coalition for Illegal Pornography has kicked off a national awareness campaign. Go to their website www.pornharms.com or follow them on Facebook to stay abreast of all of the upcoming events. All of these events are sponsored by professionals who are highly respected in their fields. It will be worth your time if you can participate in an event that interests you.

Currently, they are giving away 250 subscriptions to Net Nanny for free. If you don't have a filter on your computer, you may want to check it out.

Facebook - Face Recognition

I just saw this from Common Sense Media. It's a good reminder to keep up with our teenagers and the privacy settings on Facebook! Click HERE to learn more about Facebook - Face Recognition.

Make A Call- May 2-4

Please take 2 minutes and call the US Attorney General and tell them that pornography is harmful and needs to be prosecuted. I did it today and left a voicemail for them. Take a look at this link for talking points and call 1-877-639-1977.

We Need Your Help!

From www.pornharms.com

We need your unique cooperation RIGHT NOW. As you know, for months we have been working diligently with Congressional Members to motivate the U. S. Department of Justice and FBI to enforce existing Federal laws against illegal adult pornography (obscene material). THERE HAVE BEEN NO NEW OBSCENITY INDICTMENTS SINCE PRES. OBAMA TOOK OFFICE AND UNDER PRES. BUSH, THERE WERE JUST A FEW. Look around you at the great harm from pornography. You can take a major step to stop it.

U. S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R. UT) and U.S. House Representatives Mike McIntyre (D. NC) and Randy Forbes (R. VA) have written a letter to the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urging that the FBI and Department of Justice vigorously prosecute major producers and distributors of illegal adult pornography. They are circulating this letter to all Members of Congress and asking them to sign it. We want to have these letters to the Attorney General co-signed by as many other Members of the Senate and House as possible and that is why we need you to help. Please contact your two U.S. Senators and your Member of the U.S. House of Representatives to tell them to sign the letter.

This is important!

If you would like to send an email right now to your Senators and Congressman, you can do that very easily. Click here for Senators and here for Congressman.
You may also call Congress today and ask to speak to your two Senators and Congressman. The number is 202-225-3121.

Congressional staffs have also told us of the critical importance of letters. The address for Senators is: The Honorable________, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510 and for Representatives is: The Honorable________, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515). All letters are good, but those of your own composition stand out.

For many years I headed the U. S. Department of Justice office that is charged with prosecution of obscene adult pornography. I know how effective prosecutions can be. Please help today.

If you can also make a donation to this great project, just click on the button below. We value your partnership and we need funds now to make sure this project is a complete success.

THANK YOU,

PATRICK A. TRUEMAN
Attorney At Law
Founder, PornHarms.com
CEO, Morality in Media

Survey

A company releasing a new filter later this year is looking for some feedback on internet filters. If you have a minute, please take the survey.

Social Shield

This is a product that I recently heard about that helps monitor and protect your kids on Facebook. I haven't tried it, so see what you think.

Friend your kids on Facebook.

Protect them with SocialShield.

Some people think that Facebook monitors for content. They don't. Some people think they can see everything their kids do simply by being their Facebook friend. They can't. SocialShield sees it all and more and then we let you know right away when something goes wrong. Take a tour or try us out and see if we can help your family stay safe and sound.

www.socialshield.com

The Negative Impact Glee magazine pictures (and others like them) have on our youth

Glee actors pose in scantily clad GQ magazine. Does it matter? Does it affect our children and teenagers? Here is a quote from a great article from commonsense.org about these questions.

"The research around the way that highly sexualized images affect girls is alarming -- including lower grades and greater levels of depression. The negative impact on self-esteem has also been directly linked to girls who measure themselves against the sexy stars in their lives. And is this really the way we want our boys to think about girls? The challenge of counteracting these messages necessarily falls to parents. And there are as many different ways of discussing this as there are kids."

The whole article is worth reading. It helps parents identify problems with inappropriate media and how it impacts our children.

How Candeo helps those addicted to pornography, Mark Kastleman, www.Porn...

Marriage Hits a Record Low

In the United States, marriages fell to a record low in 2009, with 52 percent of adults 18 and over saying they were joined in wedlock, compared to 57 percent in 2000.

The never-married included 46.3 percent of young adults 25-34, with sharp increases in single people in cities in the Midwest and Southwest, including Cleveland, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and Albuquerque. It was the first time the share of unmarried young adults exceeded those who were married.

Marriages have been declining for years due to rising divorce, more unmarried couples living together, and increased job prospects for women. But sociologists say younger people are also now increasingly choosing to delay marriage as they struggle to find work and resist making long-term commitments.

Web Tracking Products

It is a good idea to monitor your children as they use computers and the internet. It isn't spying, especially if you tell your children that they are being monitored. Everyone should have accountability on a computer or cell phone, not just children. Being able to see where children have been and what they have been doing in a potentially very dangerous online environment, can be very helpful in keeping children safe and teaching them how to be responsible online.

Here are 4 different monitors with descriptions. Each work differently and monitor different levels.

Check out www.commonsensmedia.org for more on monitoring your children online.

AOL SafeSocial; $9.99/mo
What parents need to know: 30-day free trial offer; doesn't require kid's email passwords, but kids have to connect you to their social networks; toll-free help covers product support only, not guidance on handling specific social networking problems.
Best for: Newbies. AOL provides a lot of set-up guidance to new users, and the product is marketed as a tool parents and kids can use in partnership.

SafetyWeb; $10/mo; $100/year
What parents need to know: Requires only child's email address (not passwords); logs cell phone calls and texts; robust website links parents to helpful resources; Toll-free help and email support to help parents solve problems; no free trial offer (free first search only).
Best for: Families with older kids. This product stresses the importance of managing your kid's online reputation.

SocialShield; $10/mo; $96/year
What parents need to know: 30-day free trial offer; requires you to either log-in as your kid (with their password) or requires them to connect you to every social network they use; email support offers guidance on handling social networking problems; company website isn't well-maintained.
Best for: Facebook users. Although it checks other social networks, SocialShield started as a Facebook monitor.

WebWatcher; $97
What parents need to know: 7-day toll-free support; monitors computer use only; doesn't monitor social networks but records all of your kid's conversations; PC only.
Best for: Parents who think their kid may be at risk for serious issues like suicide, cyberbullying, or questionable relationships.

Pentagon reverserses decision and will investigate child pornography viewed by Dept of Defense employees

In a reversal, the Pentagon says it will reopen hundreds of cases of alleged purchases of child pornographyby Department of Defense employees that Pentagon officials previously declined to investigate, The Upshot has learned.

Earlier this month, The Upshot reported exclusively that in 2007, investigators for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service obtained a list of 264 military service members, civilian employees and contractors for the Department of Defense who had used credit cards or PayPal to purchase access to a child pornography website. But the DCIS, citing scarce resources, pursued only 52 of the names before closing the project -- known as Project Flicker -- in 2008. Since no further public information on the cases was made available, it appears that the other people on the list of suspected child-pornography patrons were able to continue their careers without any interruption that stemmed from the investigation.

But today, the Pentagon official in charge of DCIS told The Upshot that he has ordered the remaining cases reopened. "I have tasked Defense Criminal Investigative Service representatives with reviewing each and every Project Flicker and related referral DCIS received so as to ensure action was taken regarding these allegations involving employees of the Department of Defense," Deputy Inspector General for Investigations James Burch said in the statement Wednesday.

Burch announced his decision to revisit the cases, which had been abandoned for two years, in response to inquiries from The Upshot.