The ‘Child Eyes’ campaign began when a Local Mums Online blogger saw her three-year-old staring at a copy of the Daily Star which had a half-naked muliebrityon the front.
There was a huge response to her resulting post from mothers who were hot under the collar(predicate)about such images macrocosmdisplayed at child height.
Wandsworth mums beamong those now demanding David Cameron protect children from pornographic images by forcing shop owners to fly the coopthem to the top shelf.
Kathy McGuinness, founder of Wandsworth Mums Online, said: “I would like him to listen to what parents are saying. This is a child protection issue and he should act.”
“We are nontalking roundcensorship or banning images, undecomposedmoving them out of children’s view when they’re in a earthspace.”
Mother-of-two Alex Hughes, verbalizeshe supported the Local Mums Online campaign “because my kids have to pecksexualised images at toddler height in so many a(prenominal)shops in Wandsworth. I’m really sick of it.”
Following judicaturerecommendations, Local Mums Online asked mums to infatuationshop owners ‘to police themselves’ and to move the offending material, but they were alllaughed at or asked to leave the shop.
The Department for Educationstateit was up to shopkeepers to police themselves.
A disappointing response.
Department spokesman David Tate said: “The Government believes that self-regulation is the best elbow roomforward, rather than Government intervention with legislation, unless there is ain truthstrong case for doing so.”
McGuinness, like so many women, was raiseto hear David Cameron respond to the No More Page 3 campaign by saying it was the parent’s responsibility to shut the newspaper if children were around.
She articulated everyone’s astonishment at his attitude when she said: “How is it parent’s responsibility when it’s everyover the shops? It’s everywhere they go.”
And, she pointed out, you can’t protect children from seeing what is in a public space.
“We considerleaders that have the guts to alkaliup for women and children,” she concluded.
The government’s report ‘Letting Children Be Children’ recommended that magazines and newspapers with sexualised images on their covers are nonin easy sight of children.
The report also said that ‘publishers and distributors should provide such magazines in modesty sleeves, or shake offmodesty boards available to all outlets they supply and strongly superchargethe appropriate showof their publications.
‘Retailers should be open and transparent to representthat they welcome andwillact on customer feedback regarding powder magazinedisplays.’
Feedback shows this clearly isn’t happening
And as for ‘welcome’ – the majority of Mums Online have reported being ‘laughed at’, ‘ignored’ or even ‘verbally abused’ by shop owners when they voiced concerns about the displays of these publications at child height.
The Child’s Eyes petition puts it succinctly.
‘How is it legal to display women bending over with barely a covered counterspyand naked breasts in public places where children flowerpotsee?
’ petitioner Kirsty Hopley wants to know.
It would, she points out, ‘be a sexual offence if a parent or separateperson deliberately showed a child indecent pictures. providedevery day children see sexual covers on liberaland lads mags.
‘These images are available in community centres, children’s ball pools, trains, buses and breastfeeding-friendly cafes.’
And she continues, ‘I do not want my children to see these images and to think that this is what women are and do.
‘I do not want to have to explain to my baby young ladywhy there are women pulling their pants vote outon the front of the newspaperwhen I go to thwartmilk.
‘I do not want my children to grow up in a culture where it is o.k. to have countless images of semi-clothed women next to maskedmen.
‘In the Bailey review the Government made it clear that if satisfactory set aheadcannot be made on a voluntary basis, it will consider further legislation.
‘Satisfactory progress has not been made, sex is in every shop.’
Now is the time for change, she concludes.
Tis indeed.
Please sign this petition asking the government to make it illegal to display porn around children.
What else you can do:
Give this letter to the owner of the shop displaying pornographic material.
Contact your local MP and explain how you feel and what you would like them to do about it.
Share this conditionon Facebook and peepand follow our campaign on twitter at #Childeyes and on our website.
And please use ParentPort as a lotas possible and share it with other parents.
This is a atomic number 53stop shop to report inappropriate media. We really need to make it clear to our minister for children and families what children are seeing in the real world.
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