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An oddity of the current day and age is that people let children on a service like YT without supervision. As a child, my parents vetted anything I watched tha
by bsg75 8y ago
An oddity of the current day and age is that people let children on a service like YT without supervision.
As a child, my parents vetted anything I watched that was not a broadcast children's TV show. Adult themes and violence were filtered until an age that was considered safe.
This was also a time when the TV schedule could be known in advance. There was no on-demand anything - pre-VCR. I can't imagine handing a child the loaded gun of the internet and letting them point it at their developing heads.
- msl09 8y agoMost of my coworkers work two shifts, most of them got a second job when they realized that it was impossible to raise their children with their previous income. At some moments they are so tired that they relegate child rearing to technology, none of them chose that willingly.
- nomocrypto 8y agoI argue that having children is 100% a conscious decision (well, unprotected sex is) and if you can’t afford to actually raise your children, you are not in a position to have them. Seriously, why does nobody do the math and make a budget BEFORE having children? I know the answer: lots of babies are accidents and abortion is still seen as wrong by a lot of people. If you don’t have the means to raise children (financially or time-wise), don’t have them.
- msl09 8y agoSome people don't live in countries where abortion is legal, as it's the case for my friends. It's also important to know the huge influence of culture and peer pressure on having kids. I got physically upset when I went to parties with friends and couples were told non-stop that they needed to have kids, "it's wonderful", "I didn't know what it meant to be a woman before then", "your biological clock is ticking", and of course there's peer pressure back at home as moms tell their children that "they need grandchildren", "soon they will be too old to help with raising them". Ignoring that pressure sometimes means alienation in most social occasions as your friends and siblings only have interest in "parents talk" that you cannot engage in.
- Someone1234 8y agoPeople let kids on YouTube Kids, not regular YT, which is already a parental controlled video library. Some inappropriate content slips through the gaps, but YT has just started a new initiative where a Google/YT employee goes through and whitelists all the videos called "Approved Content." Therefore it is absolutely akin to your parents letting you watch broadcast children's TV shows, you're just trusting Google employees instead of TV network executive, and giving children more control over the order they watch content.