Posted On: January 22, 2007, 3:21 pm CST

Posted By: AZUW

It sounds like everyone agrees parenting is hard. Obviously, there are different parenting styles and different hazards to children now than there was 50 years ago. But, I don't think that means you can simply blaim the site. I heard someone mention CC verification...what if you leave your wallet on the table. I also heard people talking about how resourceful children can be (putting the computer in the kitchen). There is no way we can expect MySpace to weed out all the child molesters and pervs. I think these stories are tough because many times everyone feels they've done enough, and still something bad happens. Well, I think that's how it goes sometimes. You can talk to your kids about sex, you can be involved in almost every aspect of their lives, you can know their friends, you can know their friend's parents...but in the end, you can't guarantee that something won't happen to them. I can easily see the reaction of the parents to sue MySpace...it's almost a way of saying, "something awful happened to my kids, and I didn't do anything wrong!" They may very well be true, but unless you're going to keep you kids locked in the basement for their entire lives, they are going to experience bad things. They may get it from the internet, they may get it from friends or classmates, they may get it from the movies, etc. I feel bad for these parents, but I just don't see how you can blame the individual website without blaming the entire internet. It is a relatively new thing, but so was the telephone at one time, and so were cars. I would be interested to know if more children are being molested now than 30 years ago, or if we just here about more now that we have 24/7 media coverage from Fox, CNN, MSNBC and so on.