When splitting with the mother or father of your children, you can only hope your children are being well taken care of while in the others custody. You never really know what is happening, but normally hear stories of what they talked about or watched while they were away from you.
Crystal Buckner, 30, of Dallas, TX learned that while her two daughters, aged 8 and 9 were visiting their father, he made them watch hard-core porn. The girls went to school and spoke with the counselor about watching a large group of people having sex along with other sex acts. Of course Crystal was furious, wanted to press charges and have him locked up. But guess what? In Texas it is not against the law to show your children porn. Seriously!
In order to allow parents to teach sex education to their children, there is a law that states they are allowed to show “harmful material” to their children. They can not be prosecuted for showing material that most people would consider inappropriate. This law was created in the 1970’s. Things have changed since then. Something needs to be done.
I’ll be damned if I send my children to visit their dad and they come back talking about watching porn and I just let it go. There is no way. Something needs to be done. It will be months before Crystal will get an answer about the law changing, but she did say this, “I want people to know about this. I want parents to be mad and say, ‘No! I understand in the ’70s everybody wanted the government to stay out of their homes. I don’t want to stop parents from having that right to teach sex education, but there’s a big difference and there’s a line you should not cross when teaching.”
KidGlue readers, are you as outraged at this outdated law as I am?
Comments
THE GUYS
November 2nd, 2009 - 6:39:03 PM
We're speechless and shocked. This law makes absolutely no sense. But most of things that happen in Texas don't make a lot of sense to us. Sorry, couldn't resist!!
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