Archive for July, 2009
18 and a Sex Offender: How Easily This Could Have Happened To My Son…Or Yours
A young man my son’s age, 18 year old Phillip Alpert, is serving five years probation for the crime of transmitting child pornography after emailing nude photos of his former 16-year-old girlfriend to 70 people. He is now a registered sex offender for the next 43 years. This could happen to any of our children. [...]
Facebooks Porn Cops – What This Means To Your Kids and Teens
“The Nipple Rule”. “The Fully Exposed Butt Rule”. “The Crack Rule”. Yes, those are Facebook’s semi-formal policies about images that are posted on their site. Yoursphere shared highlights of this story written by Newsweek in our parent newsletter. Since that inclusion, I’ve thought more about what this policy means to my kids, and what it means to yours. Newsweek [...]
Mary Kay is a nationally-recognized Internet safety expert and the founder of 
