Children

“What is interesting now is that the general culture is seeing the mental health damage that pornography brings…. Louisiana house passed this bill 96-1, the state senate 34-0, and a left-leaning governor… signed the law without argument.” - P&D

“Norway, Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom are among European nations that have backtracked on hormone and surgical treatments for children who struggle with gender identity.” - BPNews

The bill effective January 1 “prohibits healthcare professionals from providing trans-identified minors with puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones and performing gender transition surgeries on them.” - CPost

“Judge Sutton, joined by the well-regarded Judge Amul Thapar, breathed life back into the law…. Judge Sutton is doubly skeptical when the ACLU asks the courts “to extend the constitutional guarantees to new territory” - World

“According to a 2021 survey by Common Sense Media, 42 percent of children in the United States own a smartphone by age 10, 71 percent by age 12, and 91 percent by age 14.” - TGC

U.S. District Judge Thomas Parker: “The AEA’s regulation of ‘adult-oriented performances that are harmful to minors under § 39-17-901’ does target protected speech, despite Defendant claims to the contrary” - BPNews

“Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed a bill into law Friday that bans sex-change surgeries and hormonal interventions aimed at transitioning minors with gender dysphoria, as the Lone Star State joins more than a dozen others” - CPost

“The internal peace we experience now has been directly connected to the following three shifts in our parenting: • train up, not tell up • should go, not shouldn’t go • old, not young” - Desiring God

“Such whole-life training, as extended preparation for healthy adulthood, is our calling as Christian parents, training both the outer person and behaviors as well as pressing through to the heart” - Desiring God

“Many reasons social media can be harmful to kids are outlined in the report… it may lay addictive pathways in the brain… may introduce easier access to potentially dangerous strangers into kids’ lives.” - CNet