After reading that article thoroughly and noticing how many replies miss the point, especially the one saying that "Parents cannot watch their children 24/7", I must rant once again. This one's a stingy one too, and I have commented this on that article (though under a different name... as I know I'll take crap for it from the people there).
Ok... so... one of the most important roles of parents is to educate their children and make sure they know right from wrong. It is also the role of civilization to educate children on right and wrong. The question is:
How do you tell right from wrong when you are not being told what wrong really means?
Let's take this case: a child grows up never knowing that porn exists. (sounds next to impossible... you see it even if you don't want to...) Then, one day, he (well, it's most often male in this case) sees porn as an adult and doesn't know it's not a good thing to force anyone into doing what they see there. His excuse? "I thought it was normal for people to do that."
Basically, you'd have a manchild who never knew right from wrong even as an adult, because you can't quite know the wrong if you never see it or at least are told about it.
My rant goes on to the point of asking: why so many taboos? In the past, parents would not even dare give their children education about such things (my parents included), and the school finally took the role that our own parents should have had but our parents were too shy to talk to us about that stuff. And I was 15 when they introduced those classes.
Nowadays, there still seem to be such cases, but rarer than before.
The fact that my parents avoided any sex-related talk with me didn't stop me from finding (without wanting to, and at the age of 4) my dad's VHS cassettes with his porn movies. What I saw there just gave me the reaction of "Ewww
" and never looked on them ever again (I even erased them for the lulz and recorded cartoons on them, HAH!).
And my mother didn't even want to tell me how babies are made. When I found out from a documentary on discovery channel how they are born only, I put two and two together after remembering those cassettes...
It's the lack of communication that results in delinquents quite often.
Then there are those who just can't be changed. Those usually, but not always, end up as problem children.
Ok... so... one of the most important roles of parents is to educate their children and make sure they know right from wrong. It is also the role of civilization to educate children on right and wrong. The question is:
How do you tell right from wrong when you are not being told what wrong really means?
Let's take this case: a child grows up never knowing that porn exists. (sounds next to impossible... you see it even if you don't want to...) Then, one day, he (well, it's most often male in this case) sees porn as an adult and doesn't know it's not a good thing to force anyone into doing what they see there. His excuse? "I thought it was normal for people to do that."
Basically, you'd have a manchild who never knew right from wrong even as an adult, because you can't quite know the wrong if you never see it or at least are told about it.
My rant goes on to the point of asking: why so many taboos? In the past, parents would not even dare give their children education about such things (my parents included), and the school finally took the role that our own parents should have had but our parents were too shy to talk to us about that stuff. And I was 15 when they introduced those classes.
Nowadays, there still seem to be such cases, but rarer than before.
The fact that my parents avoided any sex-related talk with me didn't stop me from finding (without wanting to, and at the age of 4) my dad's VHS cassettes with his porn movies. What I saw there just gave me the reaction of "Ewww
" and never looked on them ever again (I even erased them for the lulz and recorded cartoons on them, HAH!). And my mother didn't even want to tell me how babies are made. When I found out from a documentary on discovery channel how they are born only, I put two and two together after remembering those cassettes...
It's the lack of communication that results in delinquents quite often.
Then there are those who just can't be changed. Those usually, but not always, end up as problem children.
the high for tomorrows only 95* though.
