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unchanging truth?

For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.

I think it was back in 2009 when at an airport and an early morning flight, a wise elderly Christian leader said to me bluntly,

John, the question is not if your daughter will see pornography, the question is what will

she do when she sees pornography?

My daughter was only five at the time.

I was stunned, but he was right.

His words are even more true today, 15 years later than when he said them. Technology has made it even easier than before for

predatory pornography to find our kids. Even if they're not looking for it, it is looking for

them.

In fact, according to a 2020 survey, a majority of U.S. children are exposed to online pornography by age 13.

Many are exposed as young as 7.

According to the same report, 84% of male use, ages 14 to 18,

and 54% of young women, the same age,

have encountered pornography.

Last year, common sense media reported that a whopping 71% of teens they surveyed

had accessed porn within the previous week of being interviewed.

What this means is, if we're not teaching our kids how to think about

sexuality, about marriage, about their own bodies, how about how to respect others,

then someone else or something else is. Parents have to begin to teach even young children about who they are

and how to deal with sexuality, especially in this culture that is so deeply broken. The good

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