That's why we need filtering software for families to use on their PC's. Just as you wouldn't send a child off alone in a big city, you wouldn't and shouldn't let them explore the vast landscape of the Internet without a chaperone. Now, the Annenberg study tells us that 32 percent of on-line families use some type of protective software. But either they don't know it exists, how it works, or where to get it. See, what Joe found in his survey is something that I know in my gut.
Most parents are good parents.
They talk to their kids. They're involved in their schoolwork. They know their friends. But when it comes to this new medium, it's just too unwieldly. And our kids know it so much better than parents that it seems impossible to control.