A California couple is suing MySpace in a Dallas court because the social-networking site failed to do their parenting for them. It’s always someone else’s fault, innit?
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Trey, Trey…this California couple did everything expected of them as parents. He donated his sperm and she supplied the womb. The rest is up to us; the schools, teachers, MySpace and the government. What about this do you not get? (PS: None of this would have happened if the parents had hoisted a pistol and shot their child’s laptop).
@ 10:41 am on December 12, 2007
Thank god i am gay, and will not have any of these rats.
@ 12:14 pm on December 12, 2007
FYI, PJW: Not to de-snark your post, but circa 2007, being ‘gay’ has zero to do with whether one has any ‘of those rats’. In fact, it is estimated that up to 30% of ‘openly’ gay middle-aged men, for instance, were married and had children biologically before they came out or otherwise moved on. And gay couples nationally, especially the younger generation of gays, are one of the bucking-a-trend-while-starting-one rising birth rate demographics; whether adoption or via surrogate. Hence the so-called ‘religious right’ has lead efforts to refuse adoption to gay couples?
@ 1:53 pm on December 12, 2007
Don’t pass judgement when you have never walked in their shoes. Short of keeping your kids away from computers all together there is very little you can do to protect your kids online from predators who prey on them. They are very manipulative and even good kids, from good families who love and care for them, can and do fall victim everyday. I hope you never have to know this reality.
@ 2:16 pm on December 12, 2007
Actually, there’s plenty you can do to mitigate such a thing from happening. Requiring the computer to be in an area of the home that is accessible to all family members, for one – so mom or dad can occasionally peek over the shoulder of said child.
I am willing to bet that if more parents were just a little more nosy, that alone would be a deterrent. My mom used to enjoy saying that her home was not a democracy, but a dictatorship, and unless we were footing the bill for various things – like the Internet – privacy was a privilege earned, not a right.
If you can’t send an e-mail, browse the web, or send an instant message at work with the guarantee of privacy, why should a kid expect any more?
@ 2:28 pm on December 12, 2007
FrontBurner® launched in March 2003, the first blog in Dallas run by a media organization. This is where the editors of D Magazine come to waste a tremendous amount of time.
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Trey, Trey…this California couple did everything expected of them as parents. He donated his sperm and she supplied the womb. The rest is up to us; the schools, teachers, MySpace and the government. What about this do you not get? (PS: None of this would have happened if the parents had hoisted a pistol and shot their child’s laptop).
Thank god i am gay, and will not have any of these rats.
FYI, PJW: Not to de-snark your post, but circa 2007, being ‘gay’ has zero to do with whether one has any ‘of those rats’. In fact, it is estimated that up to 30% of ‘openly’ gay middle-aged men, for instance, were married and had children biologically before they came out or otherwise moved on. And gay couples nationally, especially the younger generation of gays, are one of the bucking-a-trend-while-starting-one rising birth rate demographics; whether adoption or via surrogate. Hence the so-called ‘religious right’ has lead efforts to refuse adoption to gay couples?
Don’t pass judgement when you have never walked in their shoes. Short of keeping your kids away from computers all together there is very little you can do to protect your kids online from predators who prey on them. They are very manipulative and even good kids, from good families who love and care for them, can and do fall victim everyday. I hope you never have to know this reality.
Actually, there’s plenty you can do to mitigate such a thing from happening. Requiring the computer to be in an area of the home that is accessible to all family members, for one – so mom or dad can occasionally peek over the shoulder of said child.
I am willing to bet that if more parents were just a little more nosy, that alone would be a deterrent. My mom used to enjoy saying that her home was not a democracy, but a dictatorship, and unless we were footing the bill for various things – like the Internet – privacy was a privilege earned, not a right.
If you can’t send an e-mail, browse the web, or send an instant message at work with the guarantee of privacy, why should a kid expect any more?