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I guess the attitude of "it takes a village" has some validity, but I suspect good or bad parenting has more impact on a child's development. I have always thought that if you take a group of top students and put them in a bad school/area and take a group of underacheivers and put them in a good school/area that the top students would still be on top. Mostly because of the encouragement they get at home.
Just because blaming parents has no practical solution does not mean we shouldn't at least recognize the problem. I don't think we can expect the "village" to replace good parenting. Blaming parents may be a scapegoat but promoting good parenting may also be the best way to get to a practical solution and at least accomplishes recognizing the problem.
This parent and her lawyer, by sueing MySpace, appear to be taking the "blame the village" approach but I suspect are really just using the system to try and get rich quick. The two teenagers could have met anywhere and MySpace is not the problem here.
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