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Going Down the (You) Tube
Recently, a friend of mine noticed that someone using her computer had visited the YouTube site. The YouTube video that appeared in her computer’s history had as its title the name of a popular children’s cartoon. But when she clicked play, she saw a pornography video involving children that was horribly wretched and horrific. She knew immediately one of her young children had been the unintended viewer.
In thoughtful conversations with her children, she and her husband learned that her middle school boy had been introduced to this video via a friend at the other boy’s house, the son of a close friend of hers. Knowing the horribly damaging impact involved, she let her friend know that her friend’s son had also somehow been introduced to the horrific child pornography. My friend, with sadness at what these children had been exposed to, had a difficult but open conversation with her friend, encouraging the mother to check her computer’s history, follow-up with a conversation with her kids and install parental controls. She called this mother with loving sadness, not anger, as an offer to help and prevent further exposure.
The mother did not respond kindly and took offense.
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