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RE: Why Do People Still Let Their Children Roam Free on the Internet?
Indeed, parents have a great responsibility to protect their children, and that definitely includes the Internet.
Indeed, parents have a great responsibility to protect their children, and that definitely includes the Internet.
Agreed. It saddens me that some of the horror stories of teenagers meeting people from the internet are from the last few years or even this year. When are people going to educate themselves and start having real dialogues with their kids so this stops happening? When you give your child a pair of scissors or any other tool, you tell them about the dangers, right? And when you see your kid running with scissors, you don't just turn a blind eye, so it is astonishing to me that people introduce their kids to the internet and then allow them to do whatever they want online.
The issue that I have with the public responding to these events is that whenever the online predator turns out to be a boy the same age as a teenage girl he has kidnapped and raped, self-proclaimed child advocates will act extremely disappointed that the perpetrator was not an older man. When something like that happens and the teenage girl is rescued, people should be happy that she has been found and that the perpetrator has been arrested even if he is a boy the same age as her. In other words, American society needs to take all the pedophile-panic politics out of their efforts to protect teenage girls from online predators. OLDER MEN ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF ALL TEENAGE GIRLS'S PROBLEMS!