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Originally Posted by analog
That's because it's the root of the issue.
As some have stated here, they take an active part in their children's online access, and monitor what access they do have. Their kids, unless doing it at some friend's house, are not nuding it up online. They are acting like parents, not their kids friends. Being friendly and loving has nothing to do with acting like a parent vs. acting like a friend. My parents are very friendly, but they were never my "friends", they were my parents, and that's an important distinction in whether or not you end up with kids who think it's appropriate to do the things we're discussing here.
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And you missed my point completely.
Surely there must be parents out there that happily allow their children to pass out in front of a television or a computer so long as the kids are out of there hair. And I'm sure that there's plenty of parents out there that'd rather be their child's friend than take an authoritative parental role. But I have yet to see substantial proof that this style of parenting is not only rampant in most homes today but is also the source of issues like the one we're discussing today.
While everyone may be more than comfortable stating that they were born in the last generation before all parents turned to shit - the real culprits are the parents who would rather employ methods similar to those of
Midnight rather than answer the questions their children will eventually have about sex. These children that are raised not to ask questions and not to explore what they feel are the sort that are much more likely to come into a dangerous sexual awakening.
Just as some have said already, there isn't anything you can do to ensure that your kids will do exactly as you'd like them to. All you can do is answer their questions, do your best to give them a good sense of right and wrong, and hope that when they're away they'll make good decisions.