Government and UNICEF jeopardize child development
Corona-induced homeschooling is opening up new avenues for the digitalization currently being
driven forward, from schools to children's bedrooms.
However, the rapid development in access to new learning and teaching opportunities also harbors risks.
In many primary school classes in Germany, video conferences were hacked during distance learning and
children were exposed to pornographic images or films.
Numerous experts have long warned of the dangerous, digital flood of pornography and the disastrous
disruption to children's personal development that it causes.
Nevertheless, the education system and the government did not take appropriate technical and educational protective
measures either before or after the hacker attacks became known.
On the contrary, the government is pushing ahead with digitalization, even though tolerating access to
pornography is already a criminal offence under Section 184 of the German Criminal Code (StGB).
How does that fit together? This does not show any serious interest in child protection.
But things are no better at international level either.
Another push to establish pornography comes from the UN Children's Fund UNICEF, of all people.
On their official website, they called on the member states not to deny children access to important
sex education materials by imposing age restrictions.
UNICEF's devastating argument is that it violates children's rights.
There is also a risk that content will be considered pornographic too quickly, which would affect LGBT* education in particular.
The professional opinion of pediatricians and psychotherapists about the harmfulness of pornography consumption for
children was literally dismantled in this report by UNICEF.
Experts warn that pornography consumption leads to fears and misconceptions about love and sexuality.
Relationship skills suffer, which has a high potential for addiction and represents an increased risk of sexual violence.
The healthy mental development of children and adolescents must be regarded as extremely endangered.
The Center for Family and Human Rights sharply criticizes the UNICEF report, which has since disappeared, and writes about it:
The last thing children need is a multi-billion dollar UN agency created to protect children, now telling them that porn is okay.