Study: Parents should protect children from porn

Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
Tuesday, July 31, 2012


A pro-morality group is not surprised that new study confirms intimacy in films has a negative impact on young people.

The six-year study was conducted by New Hampshire's Dartmouth College. It concludes that viewing on-screen intimacy like pornography has a significant impact on young people as they grow older. Dawn Hawkins of Washington, DC-based Morality in Media tells OneNewsNow the research is important and confirms several earlier studies.

"Pornography is harming children and leading to a lot more earlier and more frequent sexual encounters," she says. "It's harming the children's ability to form healthy relationships and healthy views of sexuality, and so this just reinforces all of that."

The new study also suggests that kids exposed to explicit content tend to indulge in risky sexual behavior. So, this research should serve as a message that parents need to take more control over what their children view.

"That's exactly what's happening," she remarks. "It's a good reminder that this kind of media does have an impression on our children, and we need to be more aware of what they're being exposed to and have conversations about this and what is healthy."

Hawkins laments that many parents ignore those discussions, so she hopes this study encourages them to change that.

Dr. Ross O'Hara's research and conclusions will be published in Psychological Science.



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Hi Cerise :) Welcome to Mingle. I wish there was more people like you speaking out against this kind of thing. The media and government work together, so you'd think the government would tell the media to put age restrictions and locks on all this porn, but still they're not doing a thing about it. Luckily, some children grow into wise intelligent respectful adults, but only if the parents keep an eye on what their child is viewing, consistently. It's a real shame that there is no role model to discourage this dirt.

I think it runs deep. I viewed 'violent' roadrunner cartoons as a child, but I still knew violence was wrong and cartoons were make believe.


I think whats changed is the family dynamic. More and more adults and children are tuned in to some technology instead of each other and the technology ends up RAISING the kids instead of just being a part of their lives.

I think parents HAVE to be odd man out (in this culture) and limit the technology instead of letting it be the primary social and learning tool in their childrens lives.

If we got back to BALANCE, where the parents are a bigger part/influence than music and movies are,,,,we could see change


until then, for those parents who HAVE to both be working ridiculous hours just to take care of the FINANCIAL support their kids need,,,and the child care to continue working

those who are, therefore, sacrificing the hands on INVOLVEMENT With their kids


its vital to pay closer attention and be 'nosy' about what the kids are doing, watching,,,etc,,,,

woah.... no way.i wouldn't be the man i am today if i didn't stumble upon my uncles' porn stash when i was a kid

I used to look at porn when I was a kid. I was addicted to it, but I didn't lose my virginity as a child. In a warped and perverted way, I think it may have helped, at least that was my thinking at that time. As I progressed in life, I see where it has caused damage though. It was just one of many addictions I used.

I was addicted to it later in life

so glad I got through it,, I have a hard time looking back and believing that person was me,,,but it was

You kids! LOL!

What they called porn when I was a teen was Playboy showing breasts with the nipples covered and a butt-cheek.

Turn on the TV and you see sex and sexual perversions.

I looked at porn all the time as a kid and I turned out honkey dory.

This is just another study trying to blame kids behavior on something other than the parents and the kids. I never looked at porn as a kid, yet lost my virginity at 9....the media is there, parents just need to learn to talk to their kids and not just ignore them.

Thank you for you response, Rawrr_Girl.
We must teach our children at every opportunity. We have to distract them with good things. Positive imagery.

Isn't it amazing how the government wants to control US parents but not the negative imagery that children are exposed to.
Actually the government is part of the problem.
Our children will be exposed to socially pornographic teachings, starting in kindergarten.

Wow, at 9yrs old you LOST your virginity!

Lust and perversion are all around us. Like an epidemic. Even at the playground.

Yes we need to talk to/with our children at every opportunity.
Some things they think they know to be true needs to be dispelled.
It's really up to us to provide a porn-free environment especially in our own homes.

i won't go into details but I didn't have a choice in the matter.

I hadn't ever even thought about sex up till then.

Children get addicted to this explicit contents and out of their curiosity and they tend to practice it. This is as a result of the very sharp photographic memory they possess. I was surfing the net one day when I stumbled upon a site filled with porn involving their favorite cartoon characters: THE SIMPSONS. If the cartoons are kept away from 'em what else is left for them to watch? Who's to blame? The media, Parents, or the Government?

You see it's all inter woven. The Govt has got the Media working for them, and the Media has got parents working. Except if they want to lose their jobs they will stop publishing these adult content. And who said the content is good for adults anyway?

Because it can't be our failing educational system, or the political fire of choosing between two people you do not want in office...Studies like this are incredibly short-sighted, I'm not saying kids should be watching porn, I'm just noting that it is hardly the primary cause of problems.

The problem with "Pro" just about anything is that they only have one direction, target if you will, with their studies.