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Editor's Note: With just over 35,000 pageviews, our number 1 blog post of 2024 is from Wheatley Scholar Gabriela Coca and BYU professor Jocelyn Wikle and deals with an issue most parents worry about: how pornography exposure affects children.
3. One study found that only 57% of children reached out to someone after exposure to pornography, leaving many youth to grapple with the experience alone.
Most of us probably have people in our lives who struggle with an addiction of some kind, whether it be to smoking, using drugs, gambling, or other vices. An addiction develops when changes in the brain and body cause a person to “feel compelled to continue using a substance or partaking in an activity, even when doing so may cause harm.” These substances or behaviors activate motivation and reward regions in the brain, resulting in an altered dopamine system. The thing about addiction is that oftentimes, the younger a person is when they are first exposed, the higher their risk for developing a serious addiction that can dominate minds and bodies, numbing them to the environment around them. This reality creates a strong motivation for parents, grandparents, schools, and lawmakers to focus on protecting children by preventing or delaying exposure to harmful substances and behaviors until their brains are more fully formed and their risk for developing dependencies is lessened.
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Highlights
- Pornography is killing social interaction and the craving for personal connection that all humans have.
3. One study found that only 57% of children reached out to someone after exposure to pornography, leaving many youth to grapple with the experience alone.
Most of us probably have people in our lives who struggle with an addiction of some kind, whether it be to smoking, using drugs, gambling, or other vices. An addiction develops when changes in the brain and body cause a person to “feel compelled to continue using a substance or partaking in an activity, even when doing so may cause harm.” These substances or behaviors activate motivation and reward regions in the brain, resulting in an altered dopamine system. The thing about addiction is that oftentimes, the younger a person is when they are first exposed, the higher their risk for developing a serious addiction that can dominate minds and bodies, numbing them to the environment around them. This reality creates a strong motivation for parents, grandparents, schools, and lawmakers to focus on protecting children by preventing or delaying exposure to harmful substances and behaviors until their brains are more fully formed and their risk for developing dependencies is lessened.
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Number 1 in 2024: What Happens When Children Are Exposed to Pornography?
Children’s brains are not equipped to process the adult experiences depicted in pornography.
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