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> If a parent doesn't want their child watching certain types of content the parent needs to monitor the child Why is this so hard for people to grasp? It's no

• KGIII 9y ago
  Possibly because of this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_takes_a_village https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_takes_a_village
  • tomsthumb 9y ago
    Do you really wanna say the internet is part of your village in the context of raising a child?
    • KGIII 9y ago
      No, I was just giving a possible reason as to why people might act like its the role of others to raise their children. I neither support it, nor wish it extended to the Internet. I'm not actually sure why you'd think I was supporting it? I'm merely showing why it may be that way. In my experience, it became fairly popular to say/believe such in the early 70s, after the hippies took their clothes off and moved into the woods for a short while.
• Noos 9y ago
  The problem is the connected and omnipresent nature of the web means there's a constant, loud sea of voices and content you have to war against, one that's really hard to control or stop. In the old days, you worried about dirty magazines under the bed, but the net has an infinite supply of the dirtiest content that's more or less trivial to find. The culture before often affected your kids a lot, but in the 70s or 80s it was local and controllable. Now its distributed and universal, while parenting is more or less the same. The old rules and chestnuts no longer apply.