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Really?
There is considerable evidence of harmful effects of watching
pornography on children, and allowing children to watch pornography is
considered to be sexual abuse in law. To quote Devon County Council's
"Safeguarding Children" training, Sexual Abuse does include "non-contact
activities, such as involving children in looking at, or in the
production of, sexual online images, watching sexual activities, or
encouraging children to behave in sexually inappropriate ways or
grooming children in preparation for abuse"
1. CEOPS states that 57% of 9 - 19 year olds have come into contact with
online pornography accidentally.
2. Exposure to pornography in children is known to cause behavioural
changes including mood changes, lack of trust, low self esteem,
aggressive behaviour, substance abuse, self harming and feelings of
shame or guilt.
2. Working in an early years setting, we have encountered 2 instances in
the last 3 years where a child has disclosed to us that they were
sexually abused by an older sibling, who abused because they had been
exposed to online pornography.
Incidentally, "child protection" is specifically defined as protecting
children from deliberate harm. I think that the subject line of this
thread should more properly be Linux Child Safeguarding.
Phil
On 31/03/14 02:28, Simon Waters wrote:
> On 28/03/14 14:32, Tom wrote:
>> As my daughters age the missuses requests for some kind of blocking
>> increases.
>> Any recommendations - pcs and android devices!
> There is no evidence of harmful effects from children who seek out porn,
> and watch it.
>
> It may be hard to convince your missus, but it doesn't matter if the
> method you choose is largely ineffective, because it simply doesn't
> matter much.
>
> If you make it hard enough, they may spend more time around their
> friends if they are interested enough, where they are probably in more
> danger of getting into trouble in such circumstances.
>
> We've already had a generation grow up with ready availability of hard
> core porn on the Internet, and nothing changed much. They were a bit
> more hard working, and a bit cleverer than my generation, but I suspect
> that is the Flynn effect, schools, culture and student loans, rather
> than porn.
>
> Time better spent ensuring your kids are happy to tell you who they are
> going to see, and where, and when they will be back. And are sensible
> enough to pick suitable venues when they arrange to meet people they
> don't know well. And possibly ensuring you can track any electronics
> they have just in case they (daughters or electronics) get lost, or into
> trouble.
>
> Much of this is cultural. When I was young pornography in the UK was
> very restricted (although teenage boys still found it), but in much of
> continental Europe it was readily available. As you'll have noticed this
> led to huge differences between UK and the rest of Europe.
>
> If Missus insists, go with the phone company filters on mobile data, and
> DNS based solutions locally, would be my suggestion. Will it work? No.
> Will it work as well as many other "solutions"? Yes. Does it matter if
> it fails? Almost certainly not.
>
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