Our First Lady has spoken out many times against sex trafficking. Now read how a report found that over 80% of reported trafficking is related to some form of sexual exploitation. The State Department acknowledges that between 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year, and of those from 14,500 to 17,500 are brought into the United States each year. There is no location within the U.S. that is immune to human trafficking. Victims are found in cities as well as rural areas, coastal as well as inland. Human Trafficking a Human Rights Violation and Security Risk

Managing Brothels

Remember The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas movie where the town Sheriff and regular patron, fights to keep a historical whorehouse open when a TV preacher targets it as the Devils playhouse? This true-story made Texas famous for drawing from the true-life Chicken Ranch in La Grange, Texas, the original play addresses the issue of private behavior in conflict with public law. There is always another story where a man accused of modern-day managing brothels in Texas -- who has pleaded guilty to smuggling women into the country to work as prostitutes. TX and OK: Man Pleads to Brothel Ring Charges

Greatest of Care
It is essential to cultivate a sense of romance if intimacy is to flourish in a marriage. But romance between a husband and wife is precarious. Like the flame of a lone candle burning in the wind, it can easily flicker and die. Your "flame" must be tended with the greatest of care — on Valentine's Day and every other day of the year. Read the article

Family Concerns

• Mannix Plans Initiative to Regulate Ore. Strip Clubs
• Hard Times for the Porn Industry?
• Study Finds Children Plagued by Unwanted Exposure to Porn
• Granting a Degree to a Creationists Raises "Thorny Philosophical and Practical Questions" According to the NY Times
• Harvard's Faustian Bargain: America’s Oldest University Selects a Dreadful President.
• Kids, the Internet and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll
• Bill Tackles US Child Porn Epidemic
• WiFi Turns Internet Into Hideout for Criminals
• The High Cost of Failing to Reform
• Ten Good Reasons to Keep Your Child in Public School
• "A Gag Order for Divorced Parents?"
• Ex-Marine Charged in Cambodian Sex Case
• Sacramento Passes Ordinance Barring Adult Stores Near Schools, Parks
• The Hole in Our Education