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The inaccurate accurate tests for foetal abnormalities https://ionainstitute.ie/the-inaccurate-accurate-tests-for-foetal-abnormalities/

Should we permit 'designer babies'

A new scientific paper says that so-called ‘designer babies’ could be only two years away. David Quinn discussed the ethics of this on Newstalk Breakfast. You can listen to the item here. https://ionainstitute.ie/should-we-permit-designer-babies/

What happened to birdsite.monster?

You can read more here: http://www.positionpapers.ie/2019/12/december-2019/ http://familysolidarity.org/346-2/

Slam dunk, terves.

Petition to ban reality: https://www.change.org/p/united-nations-ban-reality-it-s-offensive-and-upsetting REALITY IS A TERF

"Since my younger daughter is only 11, I didn’t expect the weight of the letter she brought me that night around 11 p.m., hours after I’d put her to bed.

In glittery red ink, the same she used for her Christmas list, her words sank my heart. At a friend’s birthday party, they were playing on the little girl’s phone. The girl handed it to my daughter and said, “Boys are disgusting.” My daughter clicked on a male classmate’s Snapchat story to find a video of him and a few other boys from her class laughing as they watched rape porn. She said the woman was bound up, saying “no” as a masked man approached her.

Her letter went on to describe a group of boys in her sixth grade class frequently joking about assaulting the girls in the parking lot. She said if any of the girls aren’t sitting with their legs closed, the boys will ask if they want to get pregnant. And if the girls’ legs are crossed, boys from this group often walk by and say, “Spread ‘em.”

They are in sixth grade. No 11-year-old should have to deal with, or even know, about things like this.

I contacted a teacher, and the next day, after a visit with the teacher and the principal, consequences were handed down to the whole class. The boys and girls now sit at separate tables for lunch. That hardly addresses the problem.

Our children are growing up in a very different world than the one we knew as kids. Gone are the days of your grandfather’s Playboy. Today, children have access to explicit, violent and degrading sexual material in the palm of their hands at all times.

This is where many kids get their sex education. This is where they’re learning that consent doesn’t matter, and that actually, the lack thereof is big business.

Her letter ended with the most heartbreaking line: “and this is why I HATE SCHOOL.”

Schools today not only tolerate phones in the classroom, many encourage them. I know this because I won’t let my children have smartphones, and they complain that their teachers frequently ask them to download apps to complete their schoolwork.

Technology is our future, yes, but so are these fragile minds. This is what rape culture in elementary schools looks like, and our kids are learning it.

Children today, whether we realize it or not, are part of a giant experiment. We’ve got to do more to prepare them and protect them.

I’d argue it’s time we rethink how much online access we are giving them. It’s not a matter of not trusting our children, but rather not setting them up for failure when their developing brains aren’t ready for the level of content they can see, both on and off of school property.

I’m so glad my daughter trusted me enough to share her burdened heart. But now it’s time for us as parents, and educators, to remove these technology burdens."

https://antiplondon.tumblr.com/post/189670966078/when-6th-graders-can-access-rape-porn-on-their

Parents who split before children are six put them at greatest risk of unhappiness, study finds

Parents who split before their children are six years old put youngsters at greater risk of being bullied, feeling lonely and being unhappy at school, a study suggests. Danish researchers who analysed answers given by 219,000 children in the National Well-being Questionnaire, found that those whose parents separated when they were aged two to five had […] http://familysolidarity.org/parents-who-split-before-children-are-six-put-them-at-greatest-risk-of-unhappiness-study-finds/

NEW ISSUE OF POSITION PAPERS: NOVEMBER 2019

You can read more here: http://www.positionpapers.ie/2019/11/november-2019/ http://familysolidarity.org/new-issue-of-position-papers-november-2019/

Our teenagers are doing badly spiritually says OECD report

Every year the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development issues its PISA report that details how 15-year olds around the world are doing in school. Academically, ours are doing pretty well, relatively speaking, as our media reported a couple of weeks ago. What was not reported, however, is that they are doing much more badly […] https://ionainstitute.ie/our-teenagers-are-doing-badly-spiritually-says-oecd-report/

"A recent report from international law firm Dentons confirmed what many women have long known about the trans rights movement and the tactics of its activists. The report praised the success of trans activists in Ireland, and advised activists elsewhere to imitate them by using NGOs to ‘get ahead of the government’. They should also, Dentons advise, avoid press coverage and scrutiny.

The reason for this, as James Kirkup wrote in a Spectator column about the report, is that ‘if the public find out about those changes, they might well object to them’. As a friend who has lived in the USA remarked; there are only two other lobbies that operate like this — tobacco and guns.

These tactics are, however, but one half of a pincer movement. For secrecy to be effective, it must be shadowed by its close protection bodyguard, fear:A recent report from international law firm Dentons confirmed what many women have long known about the trans rights movement and the tactics of its activists. The report praised the success of trans activists in Ireland, and advised activists elsewhere to imitate them by using NGOs to ‘get ahead of the government’. They should also, Dentons advise, avoid press coverage and scrutiny.

The reason for this, as James Kirkup wrote in a Spectator column about the report, is that ‘if the public find out about those changes, they might well object to them’. As a friend who has lived in the USA remarked; there are only two other lobbies that operate like this — tobacco and guns.

These tactics are, however, but one half of a pincer movement. For secrecy to be effective, it must be shadowed by its close protection bodyguard, fear." https://medium.com/@elsaegret/stitch-up-bristol-fashion-f1eb298e28da

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