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Seven children dead by their own hand within a year. "How do you protect your children from the Internet?" asks the Telegraph. The same year (in the U.S.), at
by dreish 19y ago
Seven children dead by their own hand within a year. "How do you protect your children from the Internet?" asks the Telegraph.
The same year (in the U.S.), at least 5,000 teens die in car accidents, the leading cause of death for teenagers. Where are the articles about how to protect your children from cars?
- eas 19y agoIf dozens of teens started purposely driving their cars into trees then you would probably see those articles.
- dreish 19y agoWhy dozens? I thought our threshold was seven, in which case I would be surprised if that doesn't happen every year. In fact, I'll bet far more than seven teen suicides a year would, if they could be interviewed after the fact, cite suburban boredom (and thus the automobile and its transformative effects on society) as the reason for their suicide. My point was just that this article is the same sort of garbage I thought we'd finally moved past ten years ago. In the 1990s, you could barely open a newspaper or watch TV news without seeing a story about all the scary dangers of the Internet. Child predators can reach through the screen and snatch your children away! If you ever buy anything online, you might as well declare bankruptcy now because your identity will be stolen! Images of breasts turn children into axe murderers! Please.
- Zak 19y ago"How do you protect your teenager from X?" is almost always the wrong question. The right question is "How do you raise your children so that they become well-adjusted young adults who don't want to drive recklessly, off themselves and the like?". Unfortunately, the latter is both a hard problem and a poor sensationalist headline.