If one of your New Year’s Resolutions is to be a bit more socially active, I’d like to suggest a couple of campaigns that I’ve recently started following and have signed up for:
- Apparently January is sadly the most popular month for people to file for divorce. Faithfulness Matters are campaigning against companies who seek to make money from breaking up relationships, specifically websites encouraging married people to have affairs.
- Make Modesty Wraps Law started after Mike Beecham found his local Co-op displaying Lads Mags where his kids could easily see them. This is a subject close to my heart after my success with getting my local Asda to move explicit magazines away from kids’ level view. There have been indications that the government is planning something like this, but it is definitely worth writing to MPs and others to encourage action.
The Vicar's Wife 
Have tweeted and emailed my MP about Faithfulness Matters. There is an Early Day Motion which they can put their name to here: http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2010-12/2375
Interesting, we have some similar law about explicit content in Quebec (Canada). But at the same time: we have law forbidding us from censoring from the view of children woman wearing hijab, niqab or burqua. If too less clothed seem un-appropriate that kind of clothing should be treated the same way. We should not forget that children are subject to imitation and that Islamic (I’m not speaking of the moderate one) propaganda affect children.
The Mothers’ Union have been at the forefront of campaigning on issues related to children seeing explicit material, inappropriate advertising and other related matters. There are new codes of practice being issued including one for the display of mens lifestyle magazines – there are a load of useful links here http://www.muwinchester.org.uk/2012/01/03/new-codes-of-practice-governing-advertising-to-children/
Please don’t assume that all divorced people rush into affairs – or even that people in unhappy marriages do likewise. Whilst some do I know of many who do not. Speaking from personal experience there is somewhat of a wrestle when, after seven years of separation, some one else comes along and you think WOW!.