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Hello Mama Laura, I am my husband's girlfriend, thanks to you and a working mom due to a lack of understanding when I was younger and lack of financial ability now. Instead I help guide other people's children, you see I am a social worker in the Mid-west. I have a growing terror that our children are in danger due to our fascination with technology. Our children spend hours in front of the TV which show them images of inappropriate behaviors, values, and lifestyles that yield little to no consequences to the characters. They play video games that depict violent and deviant behavior as fun, easy, and exciting. They have an Internet full of bullies and perverts they invite into our homes to warp their minds, values and souls. Then, as if those were not big enough tools to destroy themselves with, we give them cell phones with text. Allowing them to have secret, inappropriate conversations with who knows while sitting right next to us in the car. Add to that the ability to send picture messaging allowing them to send and receive pictures of anything under the sun and you have the birth of sexting, the modern day version of cybersex. Why do we give in to the pleas to posses these weapons as deadly and destructive as any gun. At some point we must realize that teens are not able to handle such things reasonably, heck many adults can't, and reign this problem in before our children do damage to themselves and their futures they can't even comprehend. I would like to believe that the damage to our countries youth can be reversed but I fear too few of us are willing to do what it takes. In a country when many are unwilling to accept the responsibility of parenting I fear that too few will be willing to look at their own behaviors and begin to become the role-models their children need. I would rather be at home spending all my time preparing my child for the world I will eventually have to let her maneuver but since I was too foolish to realize that being a stay at home mom would of been the best gift I could give her and myself I can at least try to make the world a better place for her and others. Please keep up your wonderful work and help people understand that unless we as a country begin changing our behavior and ourselves for the better quickly we will have to take responsibility for the slow death of America's children and that is one casualty none of us can survive. God Bless. T. |
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