Legislating morality and thinking that will be enough to protect children is a mistaken idea. The individuals who seek to prey on young people are working at the personal level and they need to be stopped at the same personal level, one on one. Excluding these individuals from access to your children has to be done by design and diligence.
Look who has access to your kids. The biggest pools of access are in the schools they attend. There you have the school boards who set policy, the principals who oversee the operation and the teachers and other functionaries like librarians, nurses, teacher’s aides and administrators who directly interact with your children. Figuring out how to evaluate the records and personalities of these people is far from a trivial exercise. But this is your responsibility. You’ve got to utilize any and every resource available. Do a search for best practices in evaluating schools for safety risks like sex offenders among the staff. Demand to see the curriculum and actual course materials that your children will be studying. Find out what outside personnel and resources will be used in any enrichment activities the school plans for the coming year. Talk to the teachers individually and engage them with frank questions about their perspectives about anything that the teachers might try to use to interject their personal beliefs on your children. Note these teachers’ appearances and mannerisms. Are they unusual looking? Do they behave at all abnormally? Look for danger signs. An obvious one is an LGBTQ individual. Worse still is someone who presents as transgender. If the school is terrible, then look for an alternative.
And the schools are not the only danger zones. Day care and after school activities such as gym classes, dance classes, sports, scouting, swimming lessons, self-defense classes, art classes, music lessons are all things that must be investigated to feel confident that the personnel are safe and to be trusted. And even then, remember that other children are also to be taken into consideration from a risk point of view. Will your child be supervised in a responsible manner by the personnel present. Or alternatively will you be present to take care of the supervision?
And finally, the other reservoir of concern are your children’s friends and their families and parents. Leaving your kids with strangers is extremely irresponsible. Get to know your kids’ friends and their families. Friends have an enormous influence on growing children. Peer pressure about sex and drug use are extremely hard to overestimate. Kids are horribly suggestible well into their twenties. But do your best to exclude the worst examples among their peers that you can. And the best way to do this is to dominate their free time with activities and playmates that you have planned and vetted. One of the best ways for you to do this is to volunteer for the supervision of the activities that your kids will be participating in. Coaching kids’ sports teams is a great way to see which kids are odd or abnormal. Also, you’ll get to meet the other parents and try to distinguish the good from the bad. But remember your knowledge of other people will always be limited. Always be careful of the situations you leave your kids in when you can’t be there.
And finally come up with a program for making your kids aware of the dangers that they may be exposed to when you’re not around. Have appropriate discussions with your kids about the strange things that have begun to infect the world. Somehow, you’ll have to explain some of the abnormalities that have become commonplace in the modern American landscape. You’ll have to explain things like homosexuality and transgenderism and how they can protect themselves from the people attempting to normalize these behaviors to children. You’re going to have to find resources to explain these concepts in ways that don’t frighten kids but at the same time allow them to adopt a posture that allows them to keep away from it. That is far from a trivial assignment.
This is an enormous amount of work. You can make it easier by living in a state like Florida that is starting to legislate against schools teaching perversion to young children. But even in a “safe” state the burden is still on you to ensure that dangerous predators don’t manage to get access to your children. But if you’re a parent, that is your job and if you’re successful you will win the culture war in the most important sense of the term. You’ll have protected your child from the sexual confusion and nihilism that is the worst damage that the Left inflicts on children. And you’ll maximize your chances of someday having grandchildren that will need to be protected too. But then you’ll have raised children that will be up to the challenge of being those parents.