today's sex infused, media generated hateful and degrading society

So i am starting to think i should post more often, because i keep cranking out these super long posts! But honestly time does not allow me to READ posts everyday (or week sometimes) let alone write one!

So the other day i had a realization. My daughter is going (ok, is already, but she will be 10X more when she's OUT OF MY BODY!) to be SO blessed. I don't mean by material things, although i am sure she ALREADY has enough of those i can only imagine how spoiled blessed she will be by the time she gets here, instead i mean by the surroundings in which she will be raised. Let me explain:

One day about 2 months ago i was talking with friends. they are all my age and at least 2 years away from the "baby track" as they call it. Nonetheless we were talking about how scary it is raising a child, ESPECIALLY A LITTLE GIRL, in today's society. There's so much media, politics, sex, booze, lies, drama and negative feeds running around the world. There literally is no way to escape it all. My friends were all saying it's a scary day and age to be raising a child. All of the future stats were found in my "Communication through Media" text book from college, as of 2008.

• 50% of marriages end in divorce
• 25% of teenage girls get pregnant during high school
• 50% of children are born out of wedlock
• 68% of teenagers are having sex
• 59% of politic are trying to repress organized religion (for all you fellow Catholics out there, this is in fact a TRUE statement from BEFORE the current legislative slanders that have attempted to demoralize Catholicism- oh and i 'm really proud of my wording!)
• 80% of TV and movie ratings are inaccurate and suggestive- meaning that a PG movie such as Shrek has enough adult humor and vulgarity it COULD have been PG 13 but was changed in order to develop a different target audience.  
• there's no statistic, but racism is STILL and everlasting problem especially among Americans (where no two people are the same race or culture, even biological siblings can different racial make-ups based on prominent genetics. And racism is no longer black and white either, ti has grown to obscene proportions where any slight difference cane be a target for humiliation.
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These are all very scary statistics for a soon-to-be mother and for current parents. I admit, i watch TV shows that are wildly inappropriate and i ENJOY them and LOVE them. However i would not allow my daughter to watch them at the age media suggests (no my 12 year old daughter will not be watching Friends).  So after talking with my friends i MAY or may not have had a melt down about how my daughter is going to be raised wrong and succumb to all the social pressure placed on her by outside forces. I was worried, but i found my peace about the subject...

• My daughter will be raised Catholic. I can not guarantee i can afford a catholic education, but at home and around her friends and family she will learn catholic teachings, morals, values, self worth and most importantly and prayer relationship with God. She will get this starting the day she was conceived. This is a step in the right direction.
• She has a family who LOVES her to DEATH! literally. i cannot picture better grandparents than my parents. The are so willing and wanting to be there for every single step and want nothing but to love and treasure their grandchildren. It really is heart melting to see how much love my parents exude! And Kel's parents are full of love and spoils! My sisters are all SO pumped to have ANOTHER niece to love, and all my friends and her Godmother (my non-twin) and her extensive extended family have already been miles upon miles of love and support. She will never feel anything but love and therefore her protective bubble from the scourges of the world just got a little bit bigger.
• Divorce is a very racy subject. I in fact married a man who has been through a legal divorce and catholic annulment. His circumstance was that of a military shotgun wedding out of fear and sex. He was young (19) and his ex wife had a child from another man that was conceived during her first marriage (before Kel) not by her husband. After she abused him verbally and physically she then got pregnant by another man (again) not her husband. When my daughter is an appropriate age we do intend to tell her this. She has a right to know, and honestly education is the best defense. Her parents will never get divorced (not in my vocabulary). I was never affected by divorce until i met Kel and my daughter will never know first hand. Her mom and dad will live out the beauties and hardships of marriage everyday in front of her and she will be raised to honor and respect the marriage vows. It has never been a concern for me and i intend on it never begin a concern for her. 
• My daughter will have two cousins who are not of the same race as here (there aren't even the same race as each other). They are as much a part of my family as she is, and she will grow up never noticing color or ethnicity. Yay for her bigger protective bubble. 
• The sex thing will come from her morals and values. I find it hard to believe that 1/4 teenage girls gets pregnant and over 50% of them are having sex. My dad had 4 daughters, by that standard someone is hiding a VERY big secret and hid it VERY well! My sister-in-law has a child out of wedlock, so my daughter will get to see first hand how hard of a life she chose for herself versus the life Cecelia will get to live first hand. However she will also learn firsthand that life is the #1 most important thing,
• Finally Kel and I do not have cable TV, but we do have Netflix with a permanent child protective lock on it already (when really we have 3 years before that will affect us). I grew up without cable and instead learned to play outside. I will do my best to shelter her from as much media as possible, and yes she will see and be exposed to some of it, but i also have enough education on eh matter to therefore educate her.

The last thing is something i cannot shelter her from: politics. It is something we will have to educate her about while fighting it's inherent disregard to freedom. However, i have found education is the best defense against evil.

I was scared about raising a strong, independent young Catholic girl in today's sex infused, media generated hateful and degrading society, but i have found my peace. My husband and I are choosing to raise her in positive surroundings that will promote positive influences. We are so blessed and she will be 10X more blessed than us.