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Protecting your money and your data – It’s “Cybersecurity Awareness Month”

Protecting your money and your data – It’s “Cybersecurity Awareness Month”

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Financial cyber-fraud is a twelve-billion dollar business each year — all of it illegal.

Consumer advocacy banking specialist Blythe Figurelle is among the experts promoting Cyber Security Awareness month during October. Whether its by phone or an electronic message, the fraudsters try to catch you with what she calls “emotional manipulation”.

Figurelle says it is common for scammers to initiate contact out of the blue, pretend to be a business or person you trust, or add unreasonable urgency.

Her advice:

    • If it’s a phone call, don’t say anything and hang up.
    • If it’s on social media, a text or an email — delete that message, without clicking any links.
    • You may wish to also block that sender or that phone number

 

On this Family Life News podcast, Figurelle describes the acronym STOP as the four steps you should do, if you suspect a call or a message is not legitimate, or someone pushes you for your account number or other private information:

Stay cautious

Take your time … don’t be rushed into anything

Only trust verified sources

Protect your codes and numbers and passwords … every time

 

Bonus content:

A coalition of law enforcement and governments in Dubai and Emirates put together a clever public service announcement, urging consumers to always protect all of their personal financial data. This music video portrays a banker whose customer gave away his codes to scammers.  Find it here.
Capital Connection – 10/18/24 – Religious Freedom, Election Involvement, Divorce, “Gender Care”

Capital Connection – 10/18/24 – Religious Freedom, Election Involvement, Divorce, “Gender Care”

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How NY’s Prop 1 impacts Religious Groups and Churches

Reforming Divorce Laws in PA

“Do No Harm” Report Highlights the Dangers of so-called “Gender-affirming” Care

Why Millions of Christians plan to Sit Out the 2024 Election

 

New York Families Foundation & New York Families ActionChristian watchdogs Jason McGuire with New York Families and Michael Geer with the Pennsylvania Family Institute discuss the weighty issues in the news — from Albany to Harrisburg to the ballot box to your hometown.

Both organizations offer issues-based voter guides and “how to register to vote” information on their websites.

 

 

 

“Capital Connection” with Bob Price airs on the radio and our live streams during the Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report each Friday. Listen, download or share these conversations anytime, from the “Family Life News” podcast feed.
Children’s Hospitals & “Gender Care” – 10/17/24

Children’s Hospitals & “Gender Care” – 10/17/24

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Children’s Hospitals & “Gender Care”

A Family Life Newsmaker Interview

A national health-care watchdog group is out with new statistics on the number of so-called “gender transition” procedures being done at children’s hospitals. Do No Harm analyzed public insurance records to compile the number of children and teens who were treated using hormones, puberty blockers, and surgical procedures on sexual body parts. The organization also analyzed the amount of money paid by insurance companies to cover those costs. (Public funds such as Medicaid and state and federal government grants are also used for such purposes.)

Beth Serio of Do No Harm told us nearly 2,000 underage minors in New York and Pennsylvania were recipients of such procedures in the most recent reporting period. She talks about the exponential growth in this trend, the financial and philosophical motivations for medical providers and hospitals to recommend “gender affirming care”, and the complications which can result for patients and for the society.

Three PA/NY hospital systems are listed in their national Top Ten List for millions of dollars raked in to perform sex change treatments for minors: Mount Sinai, New York University, and Penn Medicine. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, with 122 such patients, by far tops the list of providers described as what DNH describes as the “Dirty Dozen” in the United States.

These links provide more information about Do No Harm, which takes its name from the millenia-old medical motto:

 

 

 

 

#FaithUnderFire  10/17/2024

 
Real Answers – the process of “Adulting” – 10/16/24

Real Answers – the process of “Adulting” – 10/16/24

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Real Answers – the process of “Adulting”

It is a varied range of family situations which has young adults reliant on their parents. In some cases, 20-somethings living in their “growing up” home with their parents is a practical reality or a financial necessity. In some cases, the trendy phrase “failure to launch” applies.

Christian counselor Chris Anderson explore the process called “Adulting” in this edition of Family Life’s “Real Answers” interview. He believes one key to why so many young adults aren’t entering fully into adulthood is an emphasis on “feelings and emotions,” a common trend in this generation and in the wider culture. Senses of entitlement and constant readily-available entertainment also can limit some 20-somethings in their discovery of their true potential.

Listen to this podcast for Anderson’s analysis, advice and recommendations.

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“Real Answers” with Chris Anderson is one of our Wednesday news features on Family Life. You can hear these interviews — about life skills, social trends, family advice, and more — during our Noon Report and 5 O’Clock Report. The podcast versions are available at www.FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts. Listen, download or share them: from our Family Life Now app, the website, or most popular podcast platforms. (Search for “Family Life News”.)

Hometown Heroes – Jenn Boyd of “Hope Walks” – 10/15/24

Hometown Heroes – Jenn Boyd of “Hope Walks” – 10/15/24

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This week’s guest on Family Life’s “Hometown Heroes” feature is Jenn Boyd of the “Hope Walks” ministry. It works from Pennsylvania, but provides international medical work to help relieve the physical limitations — and, just as important, the social and personal stigma — faced by many children who are born with Club Foot syndrome. Their emphasis is that a treatable condition shouldn’t keep a child from walking.

This ministry has provided treatments for more than 161,000 children in 14 nations.

Hear about how this medical mission work is transforming lives and communities. Tap the podcast player on this page. You can also go to FamilyLife.org/newspodcasts to download or share this conversation with other who you believe would be interested too. (That link also give you a subscribe option to be notified each time Mark Webster posts a new edition of his “Hometown Heroes” interviews.)

Jenn Boyd is the communications project coordinator for Hope Walks, based in York Springs, PA.

 

For more information:

  • The website for Hope Walks is www.hopewalks.org
  • A background video is called “Hope Prays, Heals, Impacts … and Walks”. Their site also has multiple other videos online to explain the problem, the mission’s ways of healing, and the first-person stories of the families whose lives are enhanced because of a surgery which is simple and common in the U.S.

 

#HometownHeroes

 

 

 

 

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