Saturday, August 15, 2009

What are your children doing online?

If you are a parent that lets your child use the Internet (gulp!), you should be advised that a recent study of Internet searches has determined that the terms "s*x" and "p*rn*" are 2 of the top ten searches conducted by children. The search term "s*x" ranked as the #4 most-searched word, while "p*rn*" ranked as the #6 most-searched word.

"Can. 1136 Parents have the most grave obligation and the primary right to do all in their power to ensure their children's physical, social, cultural, moral and religious upbringing." (1983 Code of Canon Law)

"Children have not been given to parents as a present, which they may dispose of as they please, but as a trust, for which, if lost through their negligence, they must render an account to God." (St. Alphonsus Liguori, Doctor of the Church)

"If you do not bring up your children well, what do you do? It is the only thing you have to do; it is this that God requires of you, for this that he established Christian marriage; and it is on this that you will be judged." (St. Claude de la Colombiere)

"Parents on their part should remember that it is their duty to see that entertainments and publications which might endanger faith and morals do not enter their houses and that their children are not exposed to them elsewhere." (Second Vatican Council)

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