Friday, January 19, 2007

It's Come to This

Let me see if I have this straight: Your teenage daughter spends enough time on a web site that she forms a relationship with an adult, your daughter and the adult later meet, and the adult sexually abuses your daughter. And it is the fault of the web site???

Here are a few wacky ideas for parents like these who are so eager to blame others for the terrible things that happen to their kids who go online: Put your daughter's computer in the living room. Tell her that you will -- whenever you want because you paid for the computer and for the living room and for the entire bleeping house -- look over her shoulder at random moments, check the web sites where she has been, and maybe even look at some of her e-mail correspondence. Turn off the computer for entire days, unannounced and at random, but no fewer than two days a week. Make sure that for every hour online she reads a book for one hour.

Then you can sue websites.

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