Focus on the Family Safety Resources

Most parents are aware of the negative influences their children encounter on a daily basis. The Internet, television, movies, music and the culture at large can bombard our families with a vast array of images and messages that range from unhealthy to downright dangerous. Many parents, while fearful of the dangers, are ill-equipped to deal with the problem, often choosing to ignore it and hope for the best.

Focus on the Family's family safety resources are intended to equip families with the tools to combat these threats. Consider bookmarking this page and watching for new resources. Most of all, equip your family to live fearlessly!

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Social Networking Safety Resources

YouDiligence™ MySpace and Facebook Monitoring

YouDiligence™ is a web-based service that gives parents the power to be proactive in protecting their children from online predators and cyber-bullies. YouDiligence scans your kids' MySpace and Facebook pages for inappropriate content without complicated software installation or downloads. As a parent, you simply indicate which words you want YouDiligence to monitor. Whenever those keywords are used on your child's MySpace or Facebook page, you'll be immediately alerted by e-mail with the context and location of those words, allowing you to react to potentially dangerous situations.

No matter whose phone or computer your child is posting from, you can feel comfortable knowing that YouDiligence is monitoring the activity. Save your child's life with YouDiligence while allowing them to use the Internet safely. Click here for a 30-Day Free Trial.

Internet and Mobile Device Safety Resources

Bsecure™ Parental Controls and Accountability

Bsecure (formerly Bsafe Online), an award-winning filtering and online security solution puts parents in control of the Internet. Protecting families like yours since 2001, Bsecure is the most advanced and trusted filter — endorsed by more Christian organizations than any other. Choose flexible options on reporting, when the Internet can be accessed, what websites are visited, which social networking sites are allowed, filter and monitor IM conversations, and much more. Protect your family today by downloading Bsecure! Now protects up to 3 computers for one affordable price.

Free Bsecure Mobile™ iPhone & iTouch Internet Filtering

Bsecure (formerly Bsafe Online), an award-winning filtering and online security solution with 10 years experience, now also protects iPhone and iPod Touch users for free. Bsecure Mobile is automatically updated and protects your family from accessing millions of Web sites categorized as pornography or malware. Bsecure Mobile™ also provides a password protected local block feature to block uncategorized or unwanted sites. No registration or account is required. Click here to download the free Bsecure Mobile™ browser from the iTunes store.

Covenant Eyes® Accountability and Filtering

Protect your family on the Internet with both Filtering and Internet Accountability services by Covenant Eyes.

• Accountability service removes temptation.
• Monitors all website visits and rates sites for mature content.
• Accountability reports encourage informed and meaningful conversations with your kids.
• Internet Filtering Service blocks inappropriate sites (Windows only).
• Settings allow you to decide filter sensitivity and time controls for when the Internet may be used.
• Additional computers (including laptops, iPhone, iPod Touch, Windows mobile) at no extra charge.

What we do online impacts our lives offline. Covenant Eyes – guarding hearts, protecting integrity. Sign up for Covenant Eyes Accountability and Filtering and receive 60 days free!

Covenant Eyes® Mobile Accountability

• Free to subscribers of Covenant Eyes Internet Accountability.
• Available for iPhone, iPod Touch and Windows Mobile 6 cell phones and PDAs.
• Monitors all Web site visits and rates sites for mature content.
• Accountability reports encourage informed and meaningful conversations with your kids.
• As an individual, gain new strength by being accountable for how you use the Web.
• Remove the temptation by removing the secrecy.

Covenant Eyes - guarding hearts, protecting integrity. Sign up for Covenant Eyes Accountability and receive 60 days free!

Safe Eyes® Internet Parental Control

Safe Eyes has earned PC Magazine's Editor's Choice for parental-control software two years running! Filter objectionable material — including social networking, IM, email, and websites — while receiving immediate alerts if questionable activity occurs! You get it all — weekly reports, PC and Mac compatibility, usage on up to three computers — for one low price! Start protecting your family with top-rated Safe Eyes today. Download now!

Safe Eyes Mobile™ iPhone & iPod Touch Internet Filtering

Protect iPhone and iPod Touch users from inappropriate web content with this browser from InternetSafety.com™ — the makers of Safe Eyes® — the leading parental control suite for the PC & Mac. With Safe Eyes Mobile you will have access to familiar features such as bookmarks and multi-page view in addition to powerful Internet filtering. Now your family can enjoy Internet-on-the-go without the worries. To learn more about Safe Eyes Mobile visit www.safeeyes.com/iphone or click here to download Safe Eyes Mobile from the iTunes store. You can also watch a demo!

Media Safety Resources

ClearPlay^®

The ClearPlay DVD player enables you to watch Hollywood movies – but without the offensive scenes and language.

Simply insert a regular Hollywood movie into the ClearPlay DVD player. You choose the types of content you want removed (i.e. graphic violence, nudity, blasphemy, vulgarity, etc). ClearPlay does the rest! You make the choice, we make it easy.

Get the details about a special offer for Focus on the Family constituents.

Mpower

TV? Yes. Offensive scenes? No. MPOWER puts you in control.

Available summer 2010, Mpower will make TV watching and Internet surfing truly worry-free. It'll be the perfect way to protect the innocence of your children from offensive content that you don't want them to see. The Mpower Box will let you automatically skip a single curse word, sexually suggestive commercial or violent scene, leaving the rest of the TV program intact. And it will block offensive web content from the computers in your home.

With Mpower, you will be able to make the choices based on your values — not someone else's! We'd like to hear from you. To let your voice be heard and learn more about Mpower, please take this short national survey and receive two free gifts from Mpower. See how it works.

TiVo^® KidZone

With TiVo® KidZone you can make television viewing safer for your family. KidZone empowers parents to choose programming that they approve and filter their selections through their TiVo receiver. TiVo also gives parents insight on specific programs, so they can feel more confident in handing the remote to the kids!

Special offer for Focus on the Family constituents

Family Values Cinema

FVC is offering our families a FREE Family Movie Night Package (only $3.95 s&h), including a $25 restaurant coupon, just for trying them out. Each movie Family Values Cinema pre-selects has been family-approved by the National Board of Mothers. Every month, member families receive everything they need to enjoy a night of family togetherness — one or two family-friendly movies, a family discussion guide that poses questions about the movie's themes and morals, a unique family activity and a recipe card for a delicious movie-time snack. Members also receive a portable collector's case to keep and collect their movies.

Click here to receive your FREE Movie Night Package and $25 restaurant coupon (only $3.95 s&h) today!