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Preventing the Sexualization of Your Daughter by Vicki Courtney - Chances are you remember the rumblings in the news about the American Psychological Association and their groundbreaking discovery that the proliferation of sexualized images of girls and young women in advertising, merchandising, and media is harmful to girls' self-image and healthy development.1 When I heard it on the news, I stared at my TV in total disbelief and mumbled, "Nah! Ya think?" The study took aim at everything from sexually salacious ads to the tarted-up Bratz dolls popular with young girls. Every forum of media was fair game, including video games, song lyrics, magazines, and the round-the-clock bombardment of sexual images found on television and the Internet. Sexualization was defined by the task force as occurring when a person's value comes only from her/his sexual appeal or behavior, to the exclusion of other characteristics, and when a person is sexually objectified, i.e., made into a thing for another's sexual use. While the overall finding of the study may not come as a surprise, it should serve as a wake-up call for parents who have somehow rationalized that it's a battle not worth fighting. Take a look at some of the fallout the study confirmed: Cognitive and Emotional Consequences: ...(more)

He has written several classic books on the homosexual agenda, including "The Pink Swastika", "The Poisoned Stream," and "7 Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child". He has run a pro-family law firm in California and is now an activist pastor in Springfield, Mass. (We've been honored to have had him as a featured speaker at two recent MassResistance banquets.) For the past ten years, while lecturing and consulting on pro-family strategies in more than 30 countries, Dr. Lively has been writing the world's first textbook that teaches pro-family advocates how to defeat the homosexual agenda and re-establish family-centered culture in their respective nations from a Christian perspective.

The title of the book is "Redeeming the Rainbow: A Christian Response to the 'Gay' Agenda". The 232-page book is now being made available free on-line! It is sure to become another classic. MassResistance.org posted the entire book HERE, and also broken it up into chapters for easy reading. There's a lot of meat in this book: background facts from history to philosophy to strategy, a lengthy discussion of the homosexual movement, and even the history of the "gay marriage" issue as it began in Massachusetts. "This is my free gift to the international pro-family movement," said Lively. "Everything I've learned in twenty years on the front lines of the 'culture war' is in this book. I want pro-family people to have free access to these insights, analysis and strategies so that they will know that there is still hope for re-building family-centered culture, and how they can achieve that goal. "I have devoted thousands of hours of work and all of the skills and training I have acquired through my career to produce the most straightforward, concise and easy-to-understand guidance that I can," he added.

Internet and Cell Phone Protection Resources

• Enough Is Enough As one of the nation’s leading Internet safety organization since 1994, Enough Is Enough responded to this call-to-action by creating the Internet Safety 101SM Program.  The state-of-the-art, multi-media program is specifically designed to educate, equip, and empower parents, educators and other caring adults with the knowledge and resources they need to protect children online.  The program includes the Internet Safety 101SM Web site, a comprehensive 4-part DVD series, accompanying workbook and other resources.  Read more about the program or see what others are saying.

• Safe Families (free software) - TechMission Safe Families Program has released free software to protect children from pornography and other dangers by blocking them from accessing objectionable material on the Internet. The software is available as a free download at http://www.safe families.org.

• Internet Filters BSafe (Paid subscription)

• The Kids Internet Executive Gregory Writer not only wanted to create a browser but a kid-safe browser designed as a protection tool that would allow children to surf only sites that had been pre-approved and deemed appropriate.

• Screen It! is an independent website that reviews all major motion pictures and lists every conceivable objectionable element.

• Resources for Parents with Kids Cell Phones

• Family Online Safety Institute works to make the online world safer for kids and their families by identifying and promoting best practice, tools and methods in the field of online safety, that also respect free expression. We do this through the development of public policy, technology, education and special events. FOSI is a trusted convener, bringing together leaders in government, industry and the nonprofit sectors to collaborate and innovate new solutions in child safety in a Web 2.0 world.

Organizational Resources

• Not My Child: Contemporary Paganism and the New Spirituality by Linda Harvey (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 2008) Review here.

• The Heritage Foundation's familyfacts.org catalogs social science findings on the family, society and religion gleaned from peer-reviewed journals, books and government surveys. Serving policymakers, journalists, scholars and the general public, familyfacts.org makes social science research easily accessible to the non-specialist.

• Girls 'n Grace --- Girls 'n Grace Author Pam Davis Equips Young Girls to Meet the Cultural and Moral Challenges of Today "Today's little girls are growing up faster than ever, urged toward adolescence by the kids at school, television, movies, music, and even their toys--and each of these influences will shape who our daughters become," Davis says. "Now is the time for young girls to learn that when you live in the amazing grace of God, you don't have to give in to the kind of pressures that often lead to bad decisions." ...The release of the first two Girls 'n Grace books, Sydney Clair's Season of Change and Mesi: A Girl 'n Grace in Africa (Authentic), will serve as the introduction to the product line. ...The Girls 'n Grace interactive website includes links for moms, mother/daughter Bible studies, games, a book club, and information about the line of dolls.

• Kids 4 Truth International Kids 4 Truth introduces a simple Gospel presentation that blends music, artwork, narration, and Scripture to communicate the unchanging message of Jesus Christ. Watch the Life of Christ Dynamation now: www.kids4truth.com/gospel (about 3-minutes long)

• Focus on the Family Safety Resources

• Family Success Ministries: Promoting Biblical Excellence in Families (www.momtime.net)

• ManHoodInAction Help men see how far we have drifted from being the strong confident fathers and husbands as Scriptures declare. Men desperately need to know that God wants them to be the leaders, protectors, and providers that we were created to be. Our main goal is to honor Jesus Christ in all we do as we are lead by the Holy Spirit. While radical feminists have not achieved their goal of portraying men as controlling, insensitive, and inferior, they have confused many women and neutered men. They have taught that simple acts of good manners, like opening a door for a lady, are somehow demeaning to the lady. Women's groups have been strident about abuse by men. Yet they insist that young women should be allowed to wrestle against high school boys because it is equal treatment. What an absurd position to intentionally allow young men to brutalize young women and have inappropriate contact with them under the guise of equal rights and fair play.

• Focus on Your Child If you are struggling as a parent, take heart! We've gathered some of the best tips and tricks to help you raise great kids. Don't let parenting get you down...enjoy the journey!

• Motherhood Project where we work to promote a mothers’ renaissance — fresh thinking, discussion, and activism by mothers about motherhood and mothering, and about who mothers are, what we do, our importance to our children, families and society, and our potential as catalysts for cultural and social change for the benefit of children and families.

• Christian Mommies Christian moms looking for parenting information, support and friendship. Connecting Women of all ages and backgrounds in a community of support and love through Jesus Christ.

• The Best Friends Foundation An independent study of "Best Friends," a national abstinence-only program for middle-school age girls, is showing genuine results. A study focused on girls participating from 1999 to 2002, "and the results showed that Best Friends girls were six times less likely to be sexually active; about eight times less likely to use drugs; almost two times less likely to drink alcohol; and a little over two times less likely to smoke."

• True Love Waits - Complete: A Life of Purity - True Love Waits, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist Convention, has released a gender-appropriate flipbook called Complete: A Life of Purity. The release coincides with Valentine's Day, a time in which a large number of True Love Waits abstinence-until-marriage commitment ceremonies are held in churches and other places around the world.

• Abstinence Education's Amazing Progress School and community programs provide a positive message to teens.

• TeenMania: To provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and to take His life-giving message to the ends of the earth!
  Battle Cry: The Crisis - A stealthy enemy has infiltrated our country and is preying upon the hearts and minds of 33 million American teens. Corporations, media conglomerates, and purveyors of popular culture have spent billions to seduce and enslave our youth. So far, the enemy is winning. But there is plenty we can do. We need to take action. We need to answer the Battle Cry. Teenmania.org - To provoke a young generation to passionately pursue Jesus Christ and to take His life-giving message to the ends of the earth!

• Reporting Online Obscenity

• Protecting Children

• National Law Center for Children & Families

• Department of Justice Child Exploitation & Obscenity Section

• CleanHotels.com to provide you the ability to find and book hotel rooms that do not offer in-room, "adult" (pornographic) pay-per-view movies.

• Education Resources

• Parents Television Council

• TV Watch, encourages parents to understand the ratings system so they can use parental controls--such as the v-chip, cable or satellite blocking technology--to allow or block programs based on their rating.   The free TV ratings reference stickers, and a more detailed explanation of the ratings system and parental controls, are available at ww.televisionwatch.org.
  

A psychiatrist with the Christian Medical Association says the U.S. is seeing an unfortunate increase in kids being put on drugs to control their behavior. Dr. Robert Rogan notes that using drugs for kids with behavior problems was hardly thought of 50 years ago; most times, he says, a pill is not the best solution. Generally, he believes children with behavior problems lack one very important thing. The doctor contends, "Children today are not getting the parenting they need on an overall societal basis. They're not being taught godly principles. They're not being given godly, healthy limits on their behaviors. They don't know their boundaries, and consequently they're put under a lot of stress." But Rogan says parents cannot simply return after being absent from the home or busy about other matters, observe their children acting out, and automatically respond by putting them on medication. On the contrary, the doctor insists, in a day and age when it is not surprising to find kids whose parents have never even taught them the Ten Commandments, the real solution to behavioral problems is good parenting. [Mary Rettig]

Click here to learn about the Clinical Deception of ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) and Conduct Disorder. A free eBook.

Study Indicates ADHD Children May Just Need Sleep, Not Medication  (AgapePress) A study by Israeli researchers shows treatment of sleep apnea and other sleep disorders in children can lead to a significant reduction in symptoms associated with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.

The consequences of the "sexual revolution"

Teens Pay Price for 'Free Sex' (AgapePress) Free sex. That's what the sexual revolution promised adults in the 1960s. Over the last 40 years, even teenagers have been promised the same. But nothing is free, as the old saying goes, especially sex -- and teens are having to learn that the hard way. ...According to the Medical Institute for Sexual Health (MISH), approximately 50 percent of sexually-active teens are already infected with Humanpapilloma Virus (HPV) -- an STD that is the cause of 99 percent of cervical cancer. "This cancer is causing about as many deaths among women as AIDS," said a recent MISH press release. Moreover, the group said, approximately 10 percent of sexually active adolescents are infected with chlamydia, a major cause of infertility, while approximately 20 percent are infected with genital herpes, "a life-long and disabling problem." In addressing the sex education approach most favored by the medical and mental health community -- using condoms -- MISH raised the alarm. "For the infections that are most common to adolescents (such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes) condoms, even when used 100 percent of the time, only reduce the risk of infection by approximately 50 percent," the group said. "For HPV, which is the most common [STD] for adolescents, condoms provide no risk reduction for infection."

Sex and Young America - The constant sexual messages of our culture have shaped today's more permissive society. Young people are especially at risk, as they are growing up bombarded with messages that give them a false view of sex and relationships. For a year and a half, the National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families traveled the country to interview teens about these issues. Over 600 interviews with young people from across the United States revealed their desire to learn the truth about sex from adults they trust. In partnership with organizations such as, Campus Crusade for Christ, Hope Now, Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, Josh McDowell Ministry and Young Life, the National Coalition set out to produce products to help adults effectively talk about sex with youth. The result - Sex & Young America and Sex & Young America: The Real Deal.

A culture awash in porn by Rebecca Hagelin (4/29/2005)...The physical toll alone is stunning: My Heritage Foundation colleague Robert Rector notes that each year more than 3 million teens contract a sexually transmitted disease. According to a February 2004 report by the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, almost half of new STD cases occur among people aged 15-24, and at least half of sexually active youth will have acquired an STD by age 25. Worse, Rector says, sexually active teens are three times more likely than their non-sexually active peers to become depressed and to attempt suicide.