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[email protected] FNC | contents feature 22 The Effects of Pornography on Individuals, Marriage, Family and Community In a condensed version of a new study released jointly by the Family Research Council and the North Carolina Family Policy Council, Patrick Fagan, Ph.D., provides an in-depth look at the effects of pornography on marriages, children, communities, and individual happiness. Dr. Fagan shows that pornography wreaks havoc on society by distorting the nature of conjugal relations and, thereby, altering sexual at- titudes and behavior. articles departments 8 The School Violence numbers 4 Prevention Act Family facts of interest Alysse ElHage details what the controversial “Bullying at issue 5 Bill” does and does not require school districts to include in their updated Anti-Bullying Policies beginning in About this magazine 2010, and how to avoid the promotion of homosexuality. comment 6 13 The Silent Killer Observations from our Mary Summa unveils the calculated efforts of the president Euthanasia Movement to justify, promote, and legalize etcetera the abhorrent practice of killing both the willing and 7 unwilling using an utilitarian valuation of human life.