Posted On: January 22, 2007, 1:37 pm CST

Posted By: Jim

There is no age requirement on myspace and to access adult profiles all you have to do is check the YES box saying you are of age. Should they take steps to protect their users? Certainly & perhaps the lawsuits will help that to happen. They are there for one reason and that is to make money. That is the main reason most people start companies. Maybe the threat of loosing some money will make them more "responsible". So attorney's take advantage of peoples problems & get greedy? Sure, but all that is a different problem.
Are the partents responsible too? YES.

The problem with their & others parenting of their children is based on several things in general. Some their "fault" and some not.
1 - Lack of parental supervision with both parents working outside the home and not spending the time together.
2 - Lack of spiritual and moral guidance in the family and the erosion of all things positive in today's society. Why do we accept the things we do into our homes on TV and the net?
3 - Kids are many times much more computer savy than their parents and have greater access with the phones and other devices they all seem to have nowdays to the net and yet they are much more easily taken in by predators due to their lack of maturity, experience and trusting nature.
4 - Lack of positive roll models and other adults that will take a roll in helping to protect these young people from themselves and those that prey on them. Too many times people seem to accept perversions such as child pornography and child sex as perhaps not being for them but otherwise not opposing them either. "It's not for me but some people area just born that way" or "as long as it isn't happening to me" I don't have time. Well it is happening to you and to I if you live here in the USA, have family you love. Also if you pay taxes & end up paying the finincial cost these thing bring on society with extra law enforcement and "help" programs. These people just like the rest of us have a choice in our behavior! We can choose to be law abiding and decent people. We can choose to vote for people who would help prosecute those that do these things. WE can choose to not let these things into our homes.

The 14 yr old female we have a chance to parent at times is not allowed either at her home or at ours to access MySpace. Other sites are regulated and supervised as much as possible. She knows she can talk to any of us about anything and so the communication lines are open. Her privacy is respected but there is a balance with the rules and watchful caring eyes to protect her. Love and watch and help protect your family.