Parents' challenges in dealing with adolescent pornography and the role of cognitive strategies in reducing it.

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Master of Applied Ethics, Baqir al-Olum University, Qom, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Sciences, Qom, Iran.

10.22034/ethics.2024.51413.1683

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One of the challenges of parents in protecting and caring for their teenage children is their easy access to pornographic content. Today, this challenge is more tangible in cyber space.In such cases, parents are faced with two moral duties, one is to act according to their responsibility and the other is not to violate the privacy of the teenage child. Most of the parents do not know according to which task they should act. In this article, by differentiating between pornographic situation and addiction situation, cognitive solutions are explained as one of the solutions for managing and solving the challenges of parents and in line with education and awareness of children. Applying cognitive strategies in addition to managing the existing situation will prevent the aggravation of the child's behavioral abnormality. Raising awareness in the field of existential dignity, raising awareness about the sexual instinct and its function during puberty and post-puberty, raising awareness about the harmony of the sexual instinct with growth and perfection and other high human needs, raising awareness about the sexual identity of teenagers, raising awareness about the harms of sexual abnormality. Among them are cognitive solutions that help to strengthen the knowledge and develop adolescent attitudes.

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