At 05:08 PM 6/5/1998 -0400, Ann Miner so eloquently stated:
>> >Exactly. And as far as children are concerned, supervision is always a
>> >possibility...
>> >
>>
>> What a novel idea! You mean having parents know what their kids
>> are doing? ;-}
>>
>>G
>
>Well, that's an unnecessarily flip comment. I would say most children
>between the ages of 11 and 17 have quite a bit of unsupervised (directly)
>time for recreation. This does not mean the parents are being delinquent,
>only that they are allowing the children to develop independence. I don't
>think it's reasonable to expect a parent to watch over a 15-year-old's
>shoulder for every minute of Internet time. Links are not always what they
>seem. A person can innocently click on a link, thinking it's a G-rated site
>and be presented with pretty raunchy stuff. If filtering software can
>prevent some of this from happening and allow children to have some
>independent surfing time, I see nothing wrong with it.
Wasn't meant to be flip. Forgive me, I come from NYC ;-}.
George
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