The Right Way To Teach Sexual Abuse Prevention

June 13, 2018June 29, 2016 by Richard

[[{“fid”:”150″,”view_mode”:”default”,”type”:”media”,”link_text”:null,”attributes”:{“height”:360,”width”:480,”class”:”media-element file-default”}}]]This year at the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women I got a few minutes to speak about the right and wrong way to teach sexual abuse prevention.

Teaching children how to be safe from sexual abuse is so important, but some people aren’t recognizing that some comprehensive sexuality education is actually encouraging sexual abuse in children. The Worldwide Organization For Women has worked tirelessly since 1977 to stop the abuse of women and children around the world. Part of stopping this abuse is stopping the sexualization of the planet through theory based educational programs such as Comprehensive Sexuality Education.

Daddies Who Slay Dragons

June 11, 2018June 19, 2016 by Richard

4 year old Avery Vidrine explained fathers like this, “They work hard, slay dragons, and love us!”

This 4 year old girl obviously knows what it means to be a father and a protector. She has seen evidence in her own life. Her mother, Emily, said that Avery sends her father off to work every day with the phrase, “Now Prince Charming, go slay the dragons but be safe!”

Avery knows her father keeps her safe from dragons and other scary things and knows her father loves her enough to go away from her each day and do all that hard work. Obviously her mother has helped her have gratitude and understanding for her father’s way of life. But as I heard Emily talk about the great trust her young daughter has in her father I wondered if Avery really knew what dragons an honorable father must fight to maintain powerful in his role as father and husband.

There is no greater example of strength than a virtuous man. Maybe this is why the media goes to such great effort to distract men from what is most important and will be the most fulfiling in their lives; family and virtue. Maybe this is why the media encourages us to think of fathers as clueless and selfish. These lies about the identity and role of fathers and husbands decrease respect and destroy hope in fatherhood. Additionally these lies don’t really make women look strong or smart, they make women look like oppressors of men. These false gender roles diminish happiness in family life and create confusion.

Husbands and wives, mothers and fathers are happiest and most fulfilled when they have put their priorities in order and they are deeply attached and involved with their families.

What Are The Dragons?

Daddies really do have to fight dragons every day. Not only are voices in society trying to undermine their existence and importance but these voices are also teasing and tempting men like never before. The sexual assault on the virtue of men is intense. Sexual obsession and addiction steals the freedom of men every day. When attached to sexual obsession men become detatched from family relationships. They feel empty and alone in a pit of addiction. This is a dragon daddies have to slay on a daily basis. It takes constant and diligent effort and a deliberate appeal to God and truth for help.

Daddies, husbands and virtuous men must also slay these dragons:

Media or gaming addictions

Work and money addictions

Waking up every morning

Scheduling life so that they have time or what is most important; God and family

Taking good care of themselves

Conquer laziness and entitlement thoughts

Live within their means

Keeping their standards high when others around them don’t

The list could definately go on and on. There are so many dragons to fight.

Think of your daddy, your husband, or the young men in your life who are training to become daddies. Look how hard they fight to become the men they are meant to be. Sure they may lose a battle here and there, but they keep going forward to slay those dragons again and again.

This year, on this this Father’s Day, I think Avery Vidrine has it just right about fathers, “They work hard, slay dragons, and love us.” She will be a great support to the men in her life because she knows they must fight hard.

Whenever I think of Avery’s description I am going to remember it like this; they work hard to slay dragons because they love us.

The Best Way To Slay A Dragon

The best way to slay a dragon and protect a family is through prayer. When the dragons come, a strong daddy prays. When a strong, valiant daddy sees dragons attacking his family and is children, because they will, he prays for and blesses them.

Fathers are often described as protectors. They are often more endowed with physical strength and stamina to be sure, but I think the greatest protection I have ever seen men give is spiritual protection.

When daddy stops himself from following the dragon that is after him and falls to his knees for strength he is using the most powerful self-government skill he has. Our loving Heavenly Father helps our earthly fathers to become the protectors the world needs when they unify with him through faith and prayer.

Personal Message: Thank you Spencer for slaying dragons every day and for being a warrior our children can draw strength and clarity from in these difficult and confusing times.

The Office of Fatherhood

June 11, 2018June 15, 2016 by Richard

In an era of social confusion, Father’s Day lends an opportunity to honor and clarify this unique and valued office. I use the word office because it denotes Fatherhood as an answering to duty by one who is fitted for that performance.

WOW’s 7th position on Fatherhood states:

We encourage men of all ages to obtain the knowledge, skills, wisdom, and confidence necessary to assume their role as honorable leaders, proficient providers, and loving husbands and fathers in their homes and families.

Fatherhood involves a voluntary trust between wives and children that institutions have traditionally and wisely supported even censured in its neglect. Centuries of wisdom illustrate that a weakened, frustrated, and confused society is the result when this trust is broken. Homer dramatically contrasts this idea between his Iliad and Odyssey. In the Iliad, there is the destruction of a whole society because of one infidelity. Its companion epic, the Odyssey, teaches that faithfulness between one couple Odysseus and Penelope preserved a society that was beginning to unravel.

While the man’s role of defender or protector appears innate, the actual making of boys fit for the office of Husband and Father is a unique male challenge and an art that is best practised by Fathers, supported by Mother. This transition from boyhood to manhood was not lost in Homer’s story either. He illustrates Telemachus’ difficult struggle into manhood in the long absence of his father.

As far as a Husband and Father’s responsibility of provider, I’ll use my own story, since the conquer and plunder method of Odysseus has become antiquated, thank goodness. I am currently a degreed stay at home Mom and quite content with my hiatus out of the workforce, and total economic dependence on my husband. In fact, I am grateful for my husband’s assuming his office as provider for the family. I spent about a decade trying to balance work and family, and found it exhausting, stressful and unbalanced. It actually led to health issues. I felt I couldn’t really give my best self to anything or anyone. The last fourteen years out of the workforce, commencing with the birth of my third child has felt healthy, natural, and balanced. I feel I’m better able to give my best self and feminine energy to the people and things I care about the most. I attribute this to my husband and me learning to live better within our complementary spheres. We’ve discovered Father in his office and Mother in hers helps to harmonize the home and is the natural ingredient children and societies thrive in. May God bless Fathers and Fatherhood that uniquely male office.

A Sign Our Society Needs Self-Government

June 13, 2018June 2, 2016 by Richard

On a recent plane flight I happened to open the magazine provided for passengers by the airline in the seat back pocket. In the magazine there was an article titled “Break Room” about these “Anger Rooms” that are starting to pop up around the country.

For between $25 and $75 a person gets the opportunity to smash a fake office, living room or kitchen. The company can also provide mannequins to destroy as well.

Donna Alexander, the founder of Anger Rooms said the idea is to provide “a place for people to safely lash out without any consequences.”

After reading this line in the article my heart sank. “Are we really living in this place?” I wondered. Do we live in such a brutal, out of control society that it would be considered good therapy or appropriate for a person to spontaneously destroy stuff or mannequins posing as real people? Is the next great trend for the modern world anger and violence? Are we that selfish? Have we lost touch with our humanity?

These Anger Rooms are proof of our society’s entitlement mindset. The business is based on the idea that a person should be allowed to be as aggressive as they want to when they feel an emotion coming on, and not have to follow God’s law of cause and effect.

It is a false ideology that people need to “lash out” in order to calm down. Sure, when a person gets angry and aggressive they release endorphins which cause a high and then a low similar to the high and low induced by exercise, but that kind of chemical manipulation isn’t calm. It isn’t safe either.

It isn’t safe for a person to feel like they have to beat something or smash something to gain control of themselves again. What could happen to a person who routinely visits Anger Rooms to “lash out” and then one day is in a town without an Anger Room? What could they feel entitled to do?

According to the employees of Anger Room in Atlanta the solution to this potentially unsafe situation is clearly more shops. In one video on www.angerroom.com the staff member interviewed said, “If there were an Anger Room on every corner, the world would be a better place.” In the “Hemispheres” magazine the company said that they have intentions to take Anger Rooms global in 2017.

It saddens me that there is a market for paid anger sessions.

Don’t forget that it was the villain in the recent Star Wars movie who lost control, not the good guys. Kylo Ren, dressed in his black cape and mask, repeatedly lashed out in anger with his light saber on computers and in entire rooms aboard his ship. No one was there. The property was his. He didn’t hurt anyone during those anger sessions. Despite all of this my son leaned over to me in the movie and said, “Mom, he is totally out of instructional control.” It was obvious that his evilness and out of control behaviors complimented each other.

As I look at the social and psychological steps we have taken in recent years to arrive at this new type of emotion-based Anger Room business, I see a society living a lie. The lie is that they see themselves as more humane and loving than ever before yet there are more bullying cases at school than ever before, more cyber bullying than ever before and more domestic violence and abuse cases than ever before. Is our society going more and more out of control? Are we living in a never ending violent video game? Does war have to be in our heads as well as on our televisions?

I am in my 40s. When I was a child most children still didn’t talk back to their parents. Now days I have seen children yell and hit their parents, even in front of other adults and in public places. In a recent Wall Street Journal article titled “Parenting in the Age of Awfulness” Leonard Sax said, “Children are immersed in a culture that stokes disrespect.”

What could be more disrespectful than a violent video game aimed at hurting another imaginary person for no apparent reason. And what about the way people talk to each other on social media and commentary threads on blogs? People are hostile and aggressive and this is seen as a sign of power. Text talking cuts out all civility in discourse. And, finally the interactions seen in television and movies are selfish and image as well as power based.

On the internet we preach of personal power but never preach of self-restraint. Accepting no answers is not an option in most people’s minds. This is proven when young parents ignore authority as they let their children run wild in businesses and public places. We are missing boundaries and no answers. We need self-government.

This might go down in history as one of the most negative articles I have ever written, but I think it is important to take in the whole picture. Society at large doesn’t seem to be filling in the missing pieces.

We don’t need places to lose more control and ignore consequences. Instead we need the source of true control, and to focus on positive consequences. Without consequences there is no good and no happiness as well as no bad. Good choices create good consequences and a happy life. We need to put off the anger, not feed it, and show the world how to find the real power and the real happiness by learning self-government.

The increased social emphasis on anti-bullying has increased bullying, and the increase of a variety of media addictions and disconnection from family has created more selfishness and violent tendencies. Entitlement mentality is at an all time high and respect is at an all time low. Even self-respect is hard to find.

The history of this social change and reasons why we are now in this violence mess could all be discussed at length, but the solution is simple and short. Roles. If parents and children understood their roles again the world would be different. No answers would be given when needed and problem solving would occur with the help of consequences. When people understand their roles at home they remain more free from the intrusion of outside influences upon their roles. The media would become less important and be used less frequently. The role of media in our lives would be considered more carefully.

I have noticed that parents who know their roles and frequently teach and correct their children are also the parents who analyze the influences coming into the home more as well.

Knowing our roles and understanding them is only half he battle though. We must know how to properly use them. This means we need to know how to do the teaching with principle and skill. This is why I teach self-government.

Notes:

Anger Room and Promotional Video: https://www.angerroom.com/

Hemispheres Magazine by United Airlines: https://www.unitedmags.com/

Domestic Violence: https://www.austin-institute.org/research/is-domestic-violence-on-the-rise-in-america/

Bullying: https://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-statistics.html

“Parenting in the Age of Awfulness” https://www.wsj.com/articles/parenting-in-the-age-of-awfulness-1450397051

Kylo Ren Temper tantrum video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaZ0L7aDx50

Kenyan Self-Government Teaching Report

June 11, 2018May 10, 2016 by Richard

[[{“fid”:”145″,”view_mode”:”default”,”type”:”media”,”attributes”:{“height”:360,”width”:480,”class”:”media-element file-default”},”link_text”:null}]]In November 2015 we went to Kenya with Teaching Self-Government LLC and taught many religious leaders, teachers, social workers, family advocates, and parents how to teach self-government in Kenya. It was the first time we did a training like this out of the United States and we left with a prayer in our hearts that the wonderful Kenyan TSG mentors would be able to have the impact they desired to have.

Kenyan families have a rich heritage and strong family bonds, but over time, just like everywhere else in the world, the Kenyan families have been negatively influenced by media and moral and political corruption. Their families are struggling with similar issues as those facing families in the United States.

So many of you selflessly donated generous gifts so that we could go do this humanitarian project. It was a project like none I have been involved in before and it was tremendously successful. Here is a great peek into some of the success the Kenyan mentors are having.

This video shows two mentors of the many all over Kenya. I love hearing from them and about how their teachings are going.

I hope you will see the very positive impact the training is having half a world away.

Thank you again everyone!

The Hopeful Mother

June 13, 2018May 4, 2016 by Richard

The whole idea of motherhood is an implication of hope. Her business is about raising the next generation as she keeps an eye toward the future and the possibilities for her posterity, which fills her heart and mind with all sorts of ideals. Wouldn’t it then be strange, that mother in keeping to her duty would shun any idealizing of her own role with her being a causal agent in the child’s life? It is only my broad observation, but there appears to exist in the younger generation a sort of intellectual snobbery toward an ideal. An ideal is simply a vision of possibility. I guarantee my life circumstances in so many areas, like most on the planet, have fallen short of an ideal clung to, but it has been the very vision of the ideal that has fueled a hope within, which in turn has moved me to better action, especially as Mom. I’ve always liked the title of President Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope. It implies to me a boldness of expectation in achievement of an ideal others might otherwise scoff at, but let them scoff. I am grateful my faith affirms an ideal for motherhood. A word like noble reminds me that although motherhood is universal, it is for no common purpose. Innately it stands dignified and principal. This truth transforms my monotonous and sometimes difficult tasks, though reality means not necessarily in the moment. Noble work doesn’t have to feel noble, and feeling one way or another does not diminish the reality of its importance. Angelic is another word that is often associated with the work of mothers. Why not when the work of angels is to minister, proclaim truth and stand in the trenches as warriors. I need these ideals. They audaciously sustain my hope in me as a Mom, because when circumstances feel or truly are less than ideal, I know motherhood never is, never was and never will be.

Who is “Parenting” Our Children??

June 13, 2018April 30, 2016 by Richard

Three or more States are working with Planned Parenthood to form a partnership with their high schools, including about 57 high schools. The states involved are California, Illinois, and Maryland. This trend could spread if they are allowed in!

Planned Parenthood is the controversial organization that has allegedly been selling body parts of unborn babies, and even altering abortion procedures to make these parts more viable and intact. While the barbaric procedures are still being investigated, this valueless organization now wants to enter our education system and influence the lives of our children. They are working to partner with high schools to offer confidential services to students. They will be available 2-3 days per week to discuss topics such as: Abortion, birth control (including the morning-after pill), body image, men’s and women’s sexual health, pregnancy, relationships, sex and sexuality, sexual orientation and gender, and STDS.

This will all be on a confidential level with your child. They will be allowed to provide on-site direct resources to high school students, and guarantee confidentiality and anonymity.

Why do they want to do this? Who initiated it? Did parents and schools ask for this or is PP pushing an agenda? Before schools allow PP to enter their doors, they and parents need to be asking many questions, such as:

Will students be more likely to go to them for advice than their parents?
Will this access to students undermine the influence of parents on their teens and the values they teach?
Will their presence and services encourage teens to become more sexually active? Will their “values” on sexuality cause more social problems for teens?
What is their agenda in this?
What need exists that could not be better met by parents, and perhaps teachers and evangelical leaders?
Does their presence have the potential to make parents question their influence in their children’s lives?

It seems that whatever they have to offer, the bad outweighs the good–if Planned Parenthood can succeed in over-sexualizing our children, and encourage them to be sexually active, they can benefit financially from this…they can “own” their future!

There are things parents can and need to do to protect the consciences of their children:

1) Keep informed about what your state, school district, and school is doing with “health” and sex education. There are more and more comprehensive sexuality education agendas being pushed into the education system…even the so-called sex abuse education is highly questionable and intrusive into our young children’s consciences. Parents need to know the basis of these agendas, who is pushing for them, and what curriculum is being presented for review.

2) Let states, school districts, and schools hear from you–ask questions, and let them know your thoughts, concerns and expectations on the matter.

3) Demand transparency and input on decisions, and also on curriculum that is being reviewed before it is approved.

With your teens:

1) Trust your parental intuition and have confidence that you are the best source of information for your child to learn these things from. Have courage to teach and uphold your family’s values. Help your child understand the benefits and consequences associated with these values.

2) If you have questions on how and when to best teach your children certain topics, refer to trusted resources that have your child’s best interests in mind and that support your family’s values.

3) Keep the lines of communication open. Make a safe environment for them to come to you with questions. Find ways to initiate discussions.

4) Talk on a regular basis with your teens about their dreams, ambitions, struggles, and praise them often for the positive things they are doing. Monitor and discuss internet use, after school activities, activities with friends, and free time.

5) Spend time with them– eat meals together as often as possible. Attend events they are involved in. Take them on one-on-one activities periodically.

Parents are and have always been the best source to teach, train, and prepare children for their life as contributing adults. While schools, leaders, and educators supplement this teaching, parents should guide and direct these sources, and have input on decisions made that involve their children.

A Mighty Mother’s Heart!

June 11, 2018April 29, 2016 by Richard

The heart of every mother desires for her child to find his place in the world, but that same sweet mother’s heart just about breaks when her child goes into the world for his life’s journey.

Within the past two years I’ve joyfully sent my two oldest children out of the country to help people far from home. As much as I felt like doing a front flip from joy, I also felt as if my heart was ripped out as I saw them step into adult shoes and adult responsibilities. My tears were mixed up. Some were joyful and others were filled with pain.

I wondered how a mother’s heart must feel when she sends a child to war? Many, many mothers have worn badges of honor and sorrow as they have kissed their children and sent them off to stop a conflict or save the helpless.

A mother’s heart is the most tender and powerful part of society. Classical stories and historical accounts are full of mothers loving and grieving in powerful ways for their children. Think of Abigail Adams, Mrs. Margaret March (Marmee), and Mary the mother of Christ.

In a day when some people openly show disdain for motherhood — as well as contempt for the traditional public praise of that powerful social and familial figure we call mother — it might do us well to ask ourselves a question. Where would we all be, and who would we all be, without the strength and security that comes from a mother’s heart?

Even if our own mothers weren’t perfect, they loved, ached and prayed for, as well as taught us. Their hearts made us choose better than we normally would have and helped us feel safety when nothing else would. No matter our age or the age of the mother’s heart, we lean on it for strength and look to it as a source of truth. Nothing can replace the impact a loving mother’s heart has on a person’s life.

For some, a mother wasn’t always there. But even when that happens, none can deny the powerful influences the hearts of other mothers can also have on us. Even just the longing for the love and security of a nurturing mother’s heart can forever improve a life and perspective.

A Mighty Mother

Years ago I spoke with a remarkable mother about one of the hardest motherhood moments in her life. As a mother of six children she was always busy teaching, correcting, kissing, loving and praying for her busy family.

During World War II she was a young woman, so she knew firsthand the rigors of physical and emotional hardships.

In war time the people knew many of the brothers, husbands, cousins, uncles and fathers wouldn’t come home alive. But World War II wasn’t the most important war the soldiers were fighting. To the families left behind and to the majority of the GIs, the real war was between right and wrong; good and bad. If their son had chosen the right and lived a clean, good life, then he had won even if he was killed in action.

This mother married one of those clean, good men and raised a family of children who were taught how to be good people. They were also taught how to stay clean and good.

One by one her children left the safety of her protective care. She watched them go and her heart swelled with pride and anguish. Most of the children chose paths that would lead them to happiness and freedom, but one child didn’t.

She watched her young daughter start to develop bad friends and participate in activities that eventually led to her sadness and frustration. For a time, she damaged relationships and suffered many negative consequences for her actions.

Then, almost as quickly as the young adult went off course, she found herself back on the right track. She became dedicated to living a happier and more principled life.

When the mother related this story to me as one of her hardest parenting moments, I asked her what she did to help her daughter during her very difficult times.

This now gray-haired, gray-eyed woman looked into my eyes and into my heart and said, “I loved her. I never stopped loving her. No matter what she did that wasn’t good, I kept showering her with my love. I didn’t agree with all my daughter did, but I never stopped loving her — and she knew it.”

This one simple conversation with an elderly woman years ago taught me one of the most profound lessons about motherhood I have ever learned. A mother’s heart is her most powerful tool. It sets the tone for the relationships and the home environment, and it draws everyone to the truths she teaches. I also learned that no matter how hard a mother tries, a child may still go astray, but the mother’s heart can always help to bring a wayward child home again.

In hard times, a mother’s heart carries the others through and points the way to go. A mother’s heart is the dearest part of her.

No wonder so many children present their mothers with pictures and crafts done up in hearts each year on that one day that commemorates the impact mothers have on us all and our hearts!

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The Bathroom Debate Exposed

June 13, 2018April 28, 2016 by Richard

Recently, North Carolina has been called stupid, mean,out-of-touch, etc. because they refuse to adopt gender neutral bathrooms. At the same time, big companies like Target have said that all of their bathrooms are gender neutral. People have walked into Target locations with phones recording in their pockets and asked if they, as men, can use the women’s bathrooms without any trouble. The managers assure them they can and that they will talk to women who give them any trouble. (Some videos and facebook posts about the topic have even been removed because they expose the lack of truth behind the policies made.)

The Family Policy Institute of Washington recently did a video that really sums it all up.

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Totally interesting! They point out that some people very easily call perspective truth. It’s kind of ironic that they are on a university campus because traditionally universities have focused so much effort on proof of facts. All the questions he asked the students are all answered with subjective answers. No one got out a tape measure or asked for a birth certificate to find facts.

To some this kind of thinking seems enlightened I think, but to me it feels like that old story about the Emperor’s New Clothes. “Oh, look at those great new clothes. I can’t see them but I better say I do because someone else says they can see them.” The whole time the emperor is naked marching down the street.

Maybe the more “education” people get now days the further away from the facts they find themselves. Education should free us not add bondage by creating confusion. This whole bathroom debate goes against reason and facts. It’s weird that we are even having it.

In the story The Emperor’s New Clothes the emperor’s men tell everyone to prepare to see the very new and expensive clothing. They also tell the people that if they don’t see the clothes then that means the person is unfit for office or unusually stupid.

Who are the swindler weavers today? Who are the emperor’s men? Who will be the little child that calls out, “But he hasn’t got anything on.” Hans Christian Anderson taught us what to do about this bathroom business a long time ago. We need to still consult the facts so that we are not swindled.

I’m sure there will be some who see the bathroom issue with different eyes, but I just keep seeing the facts and it doesn’t add up to be a good idea to change bathroom policies.

I ask myself, “Is it possible that we have been stupid about bathrooms and locker rooms since the beginning? Or, could it be that someone just wants us to buy a new way of living that will make us feel like we are smarter even if we did no fact checking or thinking?”

Here is the story if you need a refresher course. https://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheEmperorsNewClothes_e.html

Historic Pro-Children, Pro-Health, Pro-Family Event Today In Utah!

June 13, 2018April 20, 2016 by Richard

Utah Governor Herbert, Pamela Atkinson, Dr. Jennifer Brown, Sen. Todd Weiler, Rep. Hall

Today in the historic Gold Room in the historic Utah State Capitol history was made. For the first time ever a state body signed a resolution stating that pornography is a public health crisis. Because of the boldness and honesty of this resolution and the backing by medical experts and groups who have studied pornography it was a statement to the world that pornography is not just some other activity like gardening or painting, it has health risks that need to be known; especially because they can effect children in such a devastating way.

The resolution was talked about on “The View” television program, in a recent front page article of TIME Magazine, as well as many other national and international talk and news programs. Even when we were at the United Nations this year multiple people from other nations talked to WOW about the resolution and showed approval. At the CSW [Conference on the Status of Women] conference leaders of an organiztion from Africa told us “it is about time someone points out that pornography leads to violence against women.”

In the press conference and public signing today on Utah capitol hill Clay Olsen of “Fight the New Drug” said that he has received letters from boys and girls stating that they have learned accept violence against women because of exposure to pornography.

Dawn Hawkins, president of The National Center of Sexual Exploitation, said that a “pandemic of harm” is caused by porn. She said the porn industry furthers sexual exploitation.

Dr. Brian Willoughby, a relationship expert and BYU professor, talked about his research and corresponding research on the damaging effects of pornography sighting that it has been proven that pornography exposure at young ages links to “lower mental health.”

The sponsor of the resolution, Senator Todd Weiler, said that calling porn damaging to health is no different than declaring smoking damaging to health. He sighted how cigaretts used to be available in vending machines until the true dangers and addictive qualities were made known at which time protections for children were put into place, and now the same needs to happen for pornography.

The pornography industry is very lucrative. Pamela Atkinson, chair of UCAP, said that the latest data shows the porn industry makes 14 billion dollars annually.

This truly was an historic day! WOW was happy to be part of promoting this resolution this year on Utah’s capitol hill and plans to continue to promote this type of awareness about pornography to help protect children and families from the harms to conscience, health, and familial happiness that have been proven to occur when pornography is present in the home.

Read the famous resolution here.