by Kristen A. Jenson

Do regular talks about pornography really make a difference?

Do you ever wonder if anything you say is really influencing your kids? Are they even listening? Turns out a new study shows that parents who talk to their kids about avoiding porn are making a difference! In fact, these talks also improve their kids’ self-esteem.

Study results are impressive

Here’s a quick run-down on the ground-breaking study which was done by Texas Tech University and will soon be published in the Journal of Children’s Media.

• Children of parents who regularly talked about their dislike for pornography expressed more negative attitudes about pornography as college students.
• These negative attitudes correlated to less porn use.
• Kids who were caught looking at pornography and consequently received more porn talks also developed a greater degree of emotional resiliency. Specifically, they were less likely to report lowered self-esteem…