We believe children are the greatest gift God has entrusted to our care.
Modern parents are more attuned to their children, more involved with their children’s activities, yet they are more naïve about their children’s viewing of pornography. Unfortunately, the internet is moving so fast, parents cannot keep up with the multiple ways these websites are accessed, many times by accident.
Research indicates many children are exposed to porn as early as 8 years old. Below are some of the ways these sites are accessed unintentionally according to the Christian Apologetics Journal/Spring 2014 The Internet Pornography Pandemic. (Considering the dated material, assume there are more avenues for accidental access today.)
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With all these accidental paths to pornography, it is no wonder children are viewing porn at younger ages. Consequently, there are three basic problems with an accidental encounter of porn;
1. What is seen cannot be unseen,
2. Normal curiosity draws children back to these sites
3.Children are believing this is normal sexual behavior and will try to imitate it.
Consider a child’s brain is not fully developed until the age of 25. The graphic images children are viewing are having a lasting impact. According to Dr. Judith Reisman, a pioneer on the harmful impact of pornography, “a child’s brain becomes psycho-pharmacologically altered and damages the child’s sense of self and reality.” Children are viewing everything from nude bodies to homosexual acts, violent sexual acts and bestiality.
With our open internet in the United States, there are some precautions parents can take, but know nothing is going to remove the need for parental monitoring and supervision. I am not an expert on technology, parents must do their own research and decide the best way to block these on their devices. I am not recommending any search engine or programs, the ones listed are mentioned by others concerning internet safety.
Additionally, parents can take some or all the following steps to deal with the problem in their own homes.