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NEW BOOK HELPS FAMILIES DEAL WITH
PORNOGRAPHY ISSUES
TO STRENGTHEN THE FAMILY: Ways to Protect Your Home Against a Growing Problem
by JoAnn Hibbert Hamilton
95% of children have been
exposed to pornography. This family friendly book helps parents know how
to protect their families
from exposure and how to improve communication with their children/youth on
this issue. Among other things, it tells the lies youth are hearing and gives
answers for parents. It gives suggestions as to age-appropriate talk and alerts
parents, grandparents and youth to the extensiveness of the problem.
Every family is affected directly or indirectly with this issue. With
information, we can deal with this problem in a positive way.
Copies of this book are available to order by sending request to:
Envision Entertainment
or on the web at www.envisionentertain.com or www.strengthenthefamily.net
Copies may also be ordered through Deseret Book Company.
IN THE NEWS
THE POLITICS OF FAMILY DESTRUCTION (click title to read the full article)
Crisis Magazine
by Stephen Baskerville
"The hard facts [of family issues] are well-established among social scientists, but a kind of ideological correctness on both left and right seems to keep us from confronting the full implications of what we know. We are afraid to challenge the accepted cliches about marriage breakdown, even when it becomes clear that they don't correspond to the evidence..."
CHOOSING VIRGINITY: A New Attitude: Fewer teenagers
are having sex. As parents and politicians debate the merits of abstinence
programs, here's what the kids have to say (click title to read the full article)
NEWSWEEK
By Lorraine Ali and Julie Scelfo
"According to a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control,
the number of high-school students who say they've never had sexual intercourse
rose by almost 10 percent between 1991 and 2001. Parents, public-health
officials and sexually beleaguered teens themselves may be relieved by this
"let's not" trend. But the new abstinence movement, largely fostered
by cultural conservatives and evangelical Christians, has also become hotly
controversial.
As the Bush administration
plans to increase federal funding for abstinence programs by nearly a third, to
$135 million, the Advocates for Youth and other proponents of a more
comprehensive approach to sex ed argue that teaching abstinence isn't enough.
Teens also need to know how to protect themselves if they do have sex, these
groups say, and they need to understand the emotional intensity inherent in
sexual relationships."
"The debate concerns public
policy, but the real issue is personal choice. At the center of it all are the
young people themselves, whose voices are often drowned out by the political
cacophony. Some of them opened up and talked candidly to NEWSWEEK about their
reasons for abstaining from sex until marriage. It's clear that religion plays
a critical role in this extraordinarily private decision. But there are other
factors as well: caring parents, a sense of their own unreadiness, the desire
to gain some semblance of control over their own destinies..."
FROM THE UN
WOMEN'S ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE CRITICAL TO ENDING POVERTY, UN REPORTS
UN NEWS CENTRE - (Click title to read the full article)
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December – Providing
women with access to reproductive health care is critical to combating poverty,
argues a new report launched today by the United Nations Population Fund
(UNFPA). The report, People,
Poverty and Possibilities: Making Development Work for the Poor, contends
that reducing the gender gap in health and education can significantly reduce
personal and household poverty and generate national economic growth.
UNICEF LAUNCHES NEW PUSH TO HELP EDUCATED GIRLS IN 25 PRIORITY COUNTRIES
UN NEWS CENTRE - (Click title to read the full article)
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December – The
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today announced the launch of a new
campaign to get girls into school in 25 priority countries, mainly in
Sub-Saharan Africa and
The new
initiative targets countries based on such factors as low enrolment rates for
girls, more than 1 million girls out of school, and prevailing crises that
affect schooling opportunities for girls, such as HIV/AIDS and conflict.
In each country, UNICEF
will work with the government to mobilize new resources, build broad national consensus
about the need to get girls in school, and help improve schools themselves to
make them more welcoming to girls.
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