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TSA recommendation: Tell children airport pat-downs are ‘a game’

An expert in the fight against child sexual abuse is raising the alarm about a technique the TSA is reportedly using to get children to co-operate with airport pat-downs: calling it a “game”. Ken Wooden, founder of Child Lures Prevention, says the TSA's recommendation that children be told the pat-down is a “game” is potentially putting children in danger. Telling a child that they are engaging in a game is “one of the most common ways” that sexual predators use to convince children to engage in inappropriate contact, Wooden told Raw Story. Children “don't have the sophistication” to distinguish between a pat-down carried out by an airport security officer and an assault by a sexual predator, he said. The TSA policy could “desensitize children to inappropriate touch and ultimately make it easier for sexual offenders to prey on our children,” Wooden added. added by: maasanova

San Francisco Moving to Ban Happy Meals

Getting your kids to not eat fast food may have just gotten a whole lot easier in San Francisco. No more happy meals. They’re not planning to ban the meal as much as the toy that comes with it, but really…the toy is what makes the happy meal. The government there feels that toys are used as incentives to get children to want more kids’ meals and are contributing to childhood obesity. Happy meal = Toy = “MOM! I WANT A HAPPY MEAL!” Sound familiar? How could the children possibly live without completing the set of kids’ meal toys? It would be such a shame to have Homer, Marge, Lisa and Maggie with no Bart Simpson. http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2010/08/12/san-francisco-moving-to-ban-happy-meals/ added by: glueandglitter