The time may not be right for Timothy Cardinal Dolan to talk
about child sex abuse, but advocates say it's long overdue.
(CNN)- The Roman Catholic Church is willing to partner with American educational institutions to educate the public
about child sex abuse after the Penn State scandal, according to the head of the U.S. church.
Their presence on the list is based «on their actions and / or public comment
about child sex abuse and cover up in the church,» the group said.
Beck fails to see that our irrationality
about child sex abuse is more encompassing than left and right.
Not exact matches
Among them: Jeffrey Sterling, the former CIA officer who was convicted in 2015 of leaking classified information
about Iran's nuclear program to The New York Times; Jeffrey Skilling, Enron's disgraced CEO; Rafael Cárdenas - Vela, an ex-leader of the Mexican drug - trafficking Gulf Cartel; and Jared Fogle, the former Subway pitchman convicted of distributing
child pornography and having
sex with minors.
«The next thing you know this has morphed thanks to the right wing media machine into an email
about a secret
child sex - trafficking ring.
Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents
about the morality of same -
sex relationships, without considering the interest of same -
sex parented families and the
children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»
Child soldier rescue, fighting
sex trafficking — some justice issues sound more «exciting» than others, but what
about the unsung work?
To hold that same -
sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual
sex; that there is nothing special
about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what
children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.
Renting Lacy is the story
about a young girl who is caught up in the
child -
sex slave industry of Las Vegas.
Linda Smith goes into great detail
about how many
children are enslaved, where they come from, how they are enslaved, what is being done to stop
child sex slavery, and what organizations are out there that you and I can get involved with.
A 1997 letter from the Vatican's representative to bishops in Ireland warns them to follow church law in investigating cases of suspected
child sex abuse by priests and expresses «serious reservations»
about requiring that such cases be reported to the police.
Perhaps there's a difference between teaching a
child (boy or girl) that
sex can cause babies and disease, and should be reserved for committed, adult relationships, and telling them that
sex outside of marriage is «bad» without explaining what is bad
about it.
One of the top reasons
children and teens stumble onto pornography on the internet is that they want to know more
about the human body and
sex in general.
We are talking
about adoption agencies being required to assign
children to gay couples, colleges and universities being required to offer same -
sex couples access to married housing, and any number of similar scenarios revolving around perceived discrimination against gays and lesbians.»
Observers also worry
about the family's helplessness to protect young
children from exposure to
sex and violence.
Child sex abuse is a taboo topic for some parents [and churches]-- CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/29/…/sexual-abuse-talking-to-kids-parents/ CNN Apr 30, 2014 —
Child sexual abuse is a taboo topic in some families, but experts insist that parents must empower kids to speak up
about inappropriate... until a guest speaker stood up to talk, shattering the banality of the.....
On the contrary, as Beck details,
children could often be induced to tell untruths
about sex abuse.
About one - third had been convicted of sexual crimes (rape, incest, statutory rape, soliciting
sex from a minor,
child porn, etc.).
In Gall's case, this juxtaposition not only reduces philosophy and theology to mere «bluster,» thereby liberating us to act without thinking seriously; it suggests that none of the consequences that follow from, for example, the codification of same -
sex marriage — the redefinition of kinship, the irrevocable technologizing of human «reproduction,» further expansion of the «new eugenics,» deliberate creation of three - parent households, and least of all, the fate of
children conceived in this brave new world — even provoke questions of human import worth thinking seriously
about.
«
Children never lie»
about sex abuse, we were told.
Summit held that
children never lied
about sex abuse — except when they concealed it, as they routinely did, to «accommodate» their frightening abusers.
I do not believe that young
children should be encouraged to self - select a «gender» which may be different from their biological
sex; or that everyone at school should adjust their behaviour to accommodate such a «transition»; or that people should be punished for lack of enthusiasm
about it.
The intact mother - father team seems more invested in its
children and has more success in raising
children, measured by
children's mental and physical health and their capacity to handle school, make friends, relate to the opposite
sex and have confidence
about the future.
At the bishops» meeting, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput asked, given this research, what do most social scientists think
about same -
sex families and
child well - being?
The «therapeutic», man - centred mentality which has infected much moral thinking since the 1940s has become a dogmatic insistence that the only really harmful thing is «repression» and that
children willbe more healthy, the more «open» they are
about sex and sexual activity.
Once parents are relieved of any understandable fears
about having to teach their young
children how to have
sex, it will be easier to convince them of the importance of exercising their God - given role as educators in chastity.
If
sex is just
about «loving», there can be no cogent reason not to talk to
children about it explicitly.
If we are engaged in chastity education rather than giving information
about sex, it is easy to show that such education, is part of the character building for
children that finds its natural place in the home.
Sometimes parents themselves, bombarded with nannying advice
about how they should teach their
children to be «safe», feel that they are letting their
children down if they don't give their ten year old explicit
sex instruction.
Parents know at least enough
about sex to conceive a
child and to feed the
child at the breast.
Agents of the state can teach your
children how to have
sex, give them condoms, put them on the pill, give them the morning - after pill if it doesn't work, and take them off for an abortion if that fails - and all without you having any say in the matter or necessarily even knowing
about it.
If parents can give a
child the gift of a complicated and subtle language, they can be trusted to pass on the relatively little biological information that
children need to know
about sex, and in a manner that, most likely of all methods, will place it in the context of the language of love and life.
Further, I will demonstrate that no one should give any
child any
sex education at all in the stage of latency (until
about eleven or twelve years old), except when correction of misunderstanding is clearly needed.
Baruch60610 said, on February 8th, 2010 at 2:33 am Fishon, your point
about teachers having
sex with
children is irrelevant.
According to a new report released Wednesday by the Trafficking in Persons Study Commission,
about 1,000 American - born
children are forced into labor and
sex trafficking each year — in Ohio.
I read a lot of people say bad things
about gays people, but you know God know your heart if one is in love with the same
sex, how much it pain him to separate them, but he has to, why because he want their
children to live.
According to them, if a
sex offender says a few words
about Jesus and «repenting», they will have carte blanche access to
children,
child safety be damned.
Gary Bauer, undersecretary of education and chairman of a White House task force on the American family, has been quoted as saying that his group's goal is «to tell
children [that premarital
sex] is wrong and explain why it's bad for them — not to teach them so much
about sex that they can engage in it in early adolescence.»
«Is the Minister aware that the recent guidelines of the House of Bishops state clearly that those who enter a same -
sex marriage, together with
children in their care, should be welcomed into the life of worshiping communities, and also that the Church of England is
about to begin a two - year process of structured conversations to explore the changing attitudes to human sexuality and their implications for the life of the church and its disciplines?»
Now it is
about the proper roles of men and women, same -
sex unions and divorce and having
children and a host of other questions once thought not to be political, and all of them somehow entangled with and ever returning to the conflict created by the Roe v. Wade discovery in the Constitution of an unlimited abortion license.
Parents» responses to their
child's normal exploratory and pleasure - producing
sex play color the
child's feelings
about sex.
(d) Supplying the couple with whatever information they may desire related to achieving a strong, satisfying marriage relationship, including information
about sex, finances, in - laws,
children, planned parenthood, religion, and so forth.
Basic attitudes and feelings
about sex (and the physical side of human life in general) are caught by
children in the home.
During the period from
about three to six years,
children normally establish an especially warm, close relationship with the parent of the other
sex.
It's not always easy for parents to talk
about sex to their
children.
But let's be clear, the Government's real agenda is not that
children and young people receive information
about puberty and
sex.
about who is most likely to be involved in
child sex abuse:
These schools are complying with government requirements (at the time of writing, see Eric Hester's «
Sex Education or Chastity Education: Church Teaching and Civil Law», in Faith, July 2007) to teach SRE, at the same time as upholding their Catholic ethos and protecting children from premature details about s
Sex Education or Chastity Education: Church Teaching and Civil Law», in Faith, July 2007) to teach SRE, at the same time as upholding their Catholic ethos and protecting
children from premature details
about sexsex.
We need to help our
children to understand and feel good
about their sexuality, even in a time when
sex seems almost synonymous with fear and death.