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well, my answer was a roundabout way of saying I do not blame the parents... I blame the people who pay to look at such things.
At the age of 14, realistically no one can control a person's actions totally, and attempting to do so will just create a greater rebellion. All any parents can try to do is educate someone to make the right decisions, and protect them and guide them as much as they can.
A 14 year old who is internet pornography may well be in every sense a "victim" - but at the same time it is a person capable of a great deal of control over their own destiny.
My feeling is that the appropriate action is to come down very heavily on sites which host such things, and people that download them - the crime is with them. As for the kids - you can blame the parents, their role models, the exploiters, the mass media, any number of things - for most people adolescence is highly sexualised.
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