Stealing a child’s innocence

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As Connie and I raised our three children almost 30 years ago, we brought them up the best way we knew how. Part of that job is protecting their innocence.

Like most parents, we wanted them to remain innocent as long as possible. A significant aspect of innocence is sexual innocence.

Today it’s becoming more complicated.

When our children were growing up, we did not have to worry about influences from the Internet, sex and violence on TV or cell phones.

First, there was no such thing as the Internet when my children were born. As you may remember from previous columns, we never forked out the money for cable TV while raising our three children.

I will admit we have a rather large collection of Disney movies on VHS.

Finally, we didn’t purchase a cell phone for our children until their 16th birthday. I’m sure that wouldn’t fly today.

According to a 2022 study by Common Sense Media, 53 percent of kids in the United States have their smartphones by age 11.

In today’s society, our children are in danger of losing their sexual innocence from another source — public institutions like schools, libraries and zoos.

Earlier this month, the Los Angeles Zoo held a “family-friendly” Drag Queen Show. The zoo marketed this event to children and infants under the age of two.

Understand that a drag queen is a man who dresses up in scantily clad women’s clothing, gaudy makeup, and often wears female prosthetics to mimic women. During the show at the L.A. Zoo the adult male performers stripped in front of the children as they fondled themselves, grabbed their genitalia and cursed. Who thinks this is appropriate for children?

Drag queen story hours for children are now a growing trend in schools and libraries around the country. Society deems things like alcohol, porn and R-rated movies inappropriate for children. This is done because children do not have the maturity or mental capacity for these behaviors. In my opinion Drag Queen shows and story hours should be added to the list.

Anyone who has been paying attention to the national news is aware of how the far left has been working to sexualize young children.

In Virginia’s Loudon County Public Schools, children were required to read a book containing sexually explicit material. Their school libraries included a book with graphic pictures of sexual acts between a boy and an adult male — considered rape.

In an Illinois public school, preschoolers received lessons on transgender ideology.

In 2021 Stacy Langton’s microphone was shut off as she read from a book she found in her son’s Fairfax County, Virginia, school library. The book described, in obscene detail, “pedophilia… fellatio, sex toys, masturbation and violent nudity.”

Also, in 2021, a mother in Texas found a book in her child’s middle school library depicting anal sex.

We send our children to school to learn reading, writing, math, science and history, not how to masturbate and use sex toys.

Thankfully — as far as I’m aware — this has not crept into our local school and libraries. But we must remain diligent. After all, it’s our job as adults to protect children and their innocence.

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When Children Lose Their Innocence

By Frances Duggan

The innocence of childhood it is a marvelous thing

And all children are untainted in their life’s early Spring

But by the time they’ve reached their teens their innocence they’ve lost

And the experience that we gain from age always comes at a cost.

When children lose their innocence they lose their gift of joy

The joy that comes from innocence in every young girl and boy,

Compared to us young children see life quite differently

Of the guilt of corruption they are completely free.

I have such happy memories of when I was a boy

My childhood years were happy years but time just seemed to fly

And the experience that I’ve gained from life it came at a great cost

For I lost something beautiful when innocence I lost.