FIRST ON FOX — Nearly 80% of children ages 12 to 17 have been exposed to sexually explicit material, according to a coalition of two dozen conservative and pro-family organizations urging Congress to pass legislation requiring age verification on pornography websites.The groups are backing Republican Indiana Sen.Jim Banks' SAFE for Kids Act, arguing that a federal standard is needed to prevent minors from accessing online pornography and to replace what they describe as an ineffective patchwork of state laws."More than 90% of parents worry about their children’s online safety and more than half agree that politicians aren’t taking this issue seriously enough," the groups wrote in a letter first obtained by Fox News Digital.
"On the whole, 81 percent of voters support a federal age verification law to protect minors from accessing pornographic content.The SAFE for Kids Act will address a major element of parents’ worries, filling in holes in current deterring measures and establishing new protections."MINOR'S LAWSUITS AGAINST ADULT SITES SHOW NEW STATE LAW IS WORKING AS INTENDED TO PROTECT KIDS: STATE AGA graphic of a Pornhub user.
(Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto)Terry Schilling, American Principles Project president, who led the letter in support of the SAFE for Kids Act, told Fox News Digital in a statement, "The predatory pornography industry has enjoyed unfettered access to our children for far too long, profiting off the destruction of American families while the political establishment looked the other way,""Senator Banks’s SAFE for Kids Act finally puts the burden of age verification squarely where it belongs: on the adult websites themselves, not on overwhelmed parents," he added. "It is time for Congress to stand up to the pornographers, empower federal enforcement, and secure a safe digital environment for the next generation."Banks’ legislation, introduced Tuesday, would require pornography websites to implement age-verification measures before u...