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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
It would seem as if it's being purported that kids were not engaging in inappropriate sexual activities before the internet and digital cameras.
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It might seem that way if you read it with a defensive stance, perhaps.
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To blame it all on the parents, then one should logically blame every wrong or inappropriate thing that teenagers have ever done on bad parents. Including drinking. Anyone here drink before you were of age? Do you blame your parents? Do you blame your parents for smoking pot? Looking at Hustler magazine? Swearing? Driving fast? Spitting on the sidewalk?
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I'll have to get out my potato sack, because I just found the biggest and most slippery slope to date. I do enjoy a good slide.
This thread isn't about smoking, or drinking, or sex, or drugs, or rock and roll, or any of the other items in your lengthy systemic hyperbole. It's about underage children posting self-taken pornographic pictures online. My commentary and assertions to that end
of course only apply and extend to the topic of discussion at hand, and not to anything you choose tack on later.
I didn't say "don't let your daughter have a computer in her room and she'll never smoke, drink, get laid, party, freebase cocaine naked and catch on fire..." I, and everything else in this thread, are talking about the topic of
this thread, not every teen issue in existence.
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And I don't think denying them private internet access, just in case they take nude pictures of themselves, is the answer.
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denying "private internet access"?... for a teenager? You say that like a computer in the bedroom for private internet access is a basic human right. Yes, teens deserve a level of privacy to live their lives, but that doesn't mean all forms of privacy are paramount to parenting. There's a point at which privacy is sacrificed for parenting. You may as well say a 14 year old should be free to spread for whomever she likes, since she deserves "privacy". "Privacy" does not apply to everything, everywhere- it has a reasonable limitation to responsible parents when safety (such as making sure your child isn't being preyed upon and giving away inappropriate personal information) or other forms of parenting are needed.
If a young teen girl was found to have been sexually assaulted by a pedophile, because their parents let her do whatever she wanted on the computer in the name of privacy, there would be a swift and rightful outcry against said parents for not taking any steps to safeguard their child.
I can't believe I'm the one to have to say this, but... think of the children, everyone.