The average age of a child’s exposure to internet porn is about 9 years of age and about 90% of children aged 8-16 have already been exposed to porn by that age. There are 4.2 million porn sites online and the number grows by 2,500 new porn sites per day. 25 million Americans surf porn sites 1-10 hours a week and another 4 millions Americans surf porn in excess of 11 hours a week. 57% of men at a Promise Keepers event surfed porn in the previous week. According to many Pastors, pornography is the number 1 issue faced by their congregations. 33% of Pastors have admitted to viewing a porn site and 18% of these have viewed it more than once a week. For every 10 men in church, 5 are struggling with pornography.  That’s a high 50%. 20% of the church going women are facing the same issue. Gone are the days of thinking that your family is safe online.

Pornographers have become invasive. They are inventing ways to get content onto your child’s screen. Their content has saturated the medium that our children are required by law to use in order to graduate. The internet can be an extensive form of emotional child abuse, where children are asked to do something, thus making them emotionally unstable and reluctant to face the world as they grow older. Children don’t need to gosearching for pornpgraphic material any more because porn is hunting them down. Porn on the internet is like having a drug dealer standing outside your 9-year-old’s elementary school yard as he/she gets out of school. That dealer simply hands a free drug sample to each child as they walk by, knowing that some will try it and a few will become addicted to it, increasing its customer-base and its profits. Pornographers are playing the same numbers game. If they put enough content out there, chances are, your child will get exposed and maybe, they’ll be the one who become addicted to it. Surviving child abuse is not an easy task and would take a long period of time to achieve.

Social welfare has determined some child abuse information and scientists have determined that it takes just a few attentive seconds for a porn image to go from your child’s eyes to his/her long-term memory where it’s hard-wired chemically by the brain. That image can never be erased. A developing child can’t process the image in their cognitive or recent part of the brain yet and because of this, the brain makes an instinctual fight-or-flight chemical response. If children are exposed to such malicious images, they will not grow to live from a healthy God-centered perspective, instead they will fall into the blasphemy of sin and unhealthy living.

In order to protect your child online, move your computer to a location in the house where it is easy to keep an eye on everyone and be keen in observing child signs, which may indicate something is not quite right, especially when they are in front of the computer. Monitoring software should be installed on your pc to ensure that your child’s browsing is limited to safety zones. Lastly, sit down and have a talk with your kids. Proper and open communication with children gives way to a healthy and safer family.

These easy tips can also make your kids safer online than they are today.

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