John D. Foubert - Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography: Understanding the Science, Risks, and Ways to Protect Your Kids

I believe that Internet pornography is the #1 threat to the healthy development of our children today. In Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography, Dr. John Foubert equips you as parents to know what you need to know and have the tough conversations you need to have with your children about this menace. This book is a must-read for all parents who love their children and want them to grow into healthy adults!

JOSH D. MCDOWELL, author/speaker

Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography delivers what its title suggests. In his new book, Dr. Foubert, an internationally known expert, uses well-annotated, up-to-date data and real-life stories to address subjects you never find elsewhere. But most importantly, parents are given real and practical ways to protect their children. Many of those helps are very simple, like the great lists of questions to ask your teens. This book will lock you in to protecting your children!

RON DEHAAS, CEO, Covenant Eyes

Dr. John Foubert has written the essential parental guide to protecting children from pornography. The numbers of children who fall prey to the evils of pornography is staggering, eventually resulting in the destruction of personal and spiritual lives for many. In todays technological world, parents cannot prevent their children from viewing pornography but they can prepare them to deal properly with it. Reading John Fouberts book is more than helpful to parents. It is an obligation.

PATRICK A. TRUEMAN, President, National Center on Sexual Exploitation

Every parent needs this book. Dr. Foubert stands on a mountain of research to give us a clear view of the science behind the harms of pornographyespecially for our kids. But he doesnt stop there. This renowned expert provides pragmatic steps every parent can take to create a safe and healthy perspective on sexuality for our children. This book is desperately needed. Its grounded, proven, and practical.

DRS. LES & LESLIE PARROTT, #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

Internet pornography is the great plague of the digital age. Parents, and all who care about the well-being of children, are desperately in need of solid, reliable, scientifically validated information, and practical guidance. John D. Foubert provides both in Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography. Its a book that every parent needs to read.

ROBERT P. GEORGE, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University

Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography is an absolute must-read for parents everywhere. This book will open your eyes to realities you didnt know existed and provide concrete guidance on how to appropriately address the topic in your home. John Foubert is perhaps one of the most informed scholars on the subject of pornography and the harm it can create in the entire world. His grasp and understanding of the literature makes him the perfect candidate to write this book.

CLAY OLSEN, founder, Fight the New Drug

This book will scare you about your children. Then it will do what all good scary books should do, which is tell you how to heal the problems and, even more importantly, how to prevent them. The problems caused by pornography, which is now ubiquitous, will put to a lie that ignorance is bliss. In this situation, ignorance is catastrophic. Written with heart and intelligence, John Foubert will lead you through the issues highlighting things that matter to parents. The author is readable and comes from a place of scientific knowledge and real-world experience. Dont miss this opportunity to snatch your children back from the pornographers who want to teach your children about sex without love and dignity. It is a battle that you can win. It is a battle that you must win.

MARY ANNE LAYDEN, Director of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program, University of Pennsylvania

Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography reflects both John Fouberts first-rate scholarship and his deep humanity. Fouberts adviceto children, parents, and adult users of pornographyis offered without judgment, aimed at helping the many people who are trapped in self-destructive cycles of pornography use. Illustrated with the straightforward data from scholarly research and the heart-breaking stories of people struggling with the effects of pornography, Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography touches the reader in both the head and heart. We need both our best thinking and our deepest feeling to cope with the pornography industrys corrosive influence on us all.

ROBERT W. JENSEN, Emeritus Professor of Journalism, University of Texas; author of Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity

Pornography is a solvent that dissolves interpersonal relationships and societal bonds, and Dr. Foubert has described the impact of internet pornography on children and emerging adults with skill and insight. Everyone should read this book, then follow his admonition to work together developing a public health policy to counter the multibillion-dollar cabal that comprises todays modern pornography industry.

DONALD L. HILTON JR., MD, FAANS, FACS

Dr. John Foubert has done a great service to children in writing this nuanced yet accessible book. His discussion of the effects of pornography is comprehensive, science based, and unflinching. By providing practical guidance on how to talk to young people about the harms of pornography, Dr. Fouberts book provides wisdom, hope, and a call to action.

GAIL DINES, Professor Emerita of Sociology; president, Culture Reframed

This is the best book I have read to help parents and other caring adults protect kids from the harms of pornography. Its research-based, eye-opening, and practical. I will be recommending it for a long time.

SEAN MCDOWELL, Biola University professor, speaker, author

Meaningful family discussions about pornography need to start early since the average age at which young people first start viewing porn is nine, and by then most of them have sophisticated computer skills enabling them to easily consume and distribute hurtful online sexual images. John Fouberts evidence-based, highly intelligible book is a much-needed resource for parents seeking effective ways of having such conversations.

WALTER DEKESEREDY, director of the Research Center on Violence; Professor of Sociology, West Virginia University

Protecting Your Children from Internet Pornography is a sobering but essential read for parents in our digital age. Not only will it awaken parents to the challenges, it offers helpful suggestions on how to start conversations with kids to help them navigate the temptation.

JON RITNER, pastor of Ecclesia Hollywood and author of Positively Irritating

Concerning internet pornography, passivity, denial, and inaction are no longer options for parents. The battle is real and relentless. You must arm yourself and your children, and there is no better resource to assist you than the book you are holding in your hands. It is thorough, compassionate, accessible, meticulously researched, and very practical. Your children need your help. This book will help you help them.

MARK HITCHCOCK, Senior Pastor, Faith Bible Church, Edmond, OK; Associate Professor of Bible Exposition, Dallas Theological Seminary