Another Example of Parents Not Taking Responsibility
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What’s worse than four teen aged girls getting sexually abused by adults they met on MySpace? Their parents suing the site because they think it should have done more to stop it from happening.
Excuse me? These parents are too embarrassed to admit they failed to supervise their own children and left them to roam around in a “virtual mall” where other teens and sexual predators hangout, and they’re upset at MySpace? Gimme a break!
Sure, there’s an abundance of trashy content on MySpace, and I do feel like they could do more to remove it, but to publicly announce that they — not their kids nor themselves — are responsible for what happened to these kids is absurd.
Each time someone goes to court to blame someone else for their own actions (or inactions), it sends a message that says, “I made a bad decision, but I want somebody else to take the blame.” We see or hear about it all the time in the news. Somebody uses a product incorrectly, gets injured because of it and gets millions for it. Or an old lady spills hot coffee in her lap while driving away from the fast food place, sues the fast food place and is set for life financially.
What happened to accountability? What happened to “I messed up, but now that I’ve learned from my mistake, I won’t be doing that again.”?
Here’s my theory. Parents today are too busy trying to be friends with their kids instead of parents. The “Ward and June Cleaver” method of parenting has almost become extinct. Yes, things have changed since the black-and-white TV world of Leave it to Beaver. There’s lots more to do, more technology and so on, but that shouldn’t excuse us from being good parents.
With so many people suing over every little thing and winning, where’s the motivation to do the right thing any more? It has become so much easier to cry foul and get paid for it, than to have justice served.
You could almost say that there’s fame in shame, but if these people had any shame at all, they’d tuck their tails between their legs and start working on becoming better people, better parents, and setting the example for their kids, who will in turn set the example for their kids.
[tags]MySpace, sexual abuse, sexual predators, parenting[/tags]
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