Parental abdiction of responsibility

[P.A. Gantt]

Post observed on another educational list with
my response. Salient to recent threads on this
list. Feel free to disagree... after all this
is still a free country. Work hard to keep it
that way.
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"The job of shielding kids from Net pornography in a
free speech system can be accomplished constitutionally only by
parents."

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[SOURCE: Washington Post (A18), AUTHOR: WP Editorial Staff]
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-11/24/000l-112498-idx.html

Absolute agreement. Parents need to be (serve as) the monitor,
moderator, guidance for their children...to do otherwise abdicates
parental responsibility for the children they chose to bring
into this world.

The judge that struck down the filtering in the library
definitely was on the right track. A library is not
a daycare center (as was a recent thread in the web4lib)
most certainly is not a dumping place for parents to drop off
their children without physically supervising their own
issue.

> You know when I send my child to the library I do not
> expect that he will be sitting in the corner reading pornography either in
> paper form or on the internet.

Sorry but I have to ask, why aren't you properly supervising
your child?

Have you not instilled morals and proper behaviors
so your child knows better than to visit these sites?

The responsibility rests solely on your shoulders as the
parent to monitor and moderate your own child's behavior.
-- 
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