OR YOU..
WHOM should take the time to teach your child, and BE/FEEL responsible when they mess up, or do good.
If you DONT teach them, they will learn on their own. And you have NOTHINg to feel proud of, as THEY learned it, NOT you teaching it.

AND all of these are Common laws that SHOULD be used, NO MATTER WHAT. they do NOT pertain to SOMEONE ELSES child, and NOT mine.
ALL the Child porna nd molestation laws, ARE NOT for your child, but AGAINST those that abuse them, and ALSO yourself.
I dont sell, Alcohol or CIgs, those are BUSINESS laws, they STILL have nothing to do with ME, helping your child.
AND IF, you come into my home, AND you know I smoke…THATS YOUR ERROR to bring a child into.
CURFEW??? During the SUMMER…THATS parents LAW. YOU ARe still responsible for YOUR CHILD, not others.
AGE of consent?? Thats Against the child, and NOt any adult. Still falls onto the parent.

Get off the horse. If your child jumps over a hedge/fence and fals into a 6 foot hole and breaks a leg, WHOSE fault is it?? YOURs or THEIRS?? WHEn are you going to know WHEN your child WANTS to be ADULT, and WHEN are you going to LET them BE ADULT.
This is NOT like a puppy, that GROWS UP, and becomes DOG.
LEt the strings go, THEY GROW UP, and your REQUIREMENT is to prepare them. NOt to coddle them until they are 40…TEACH and make them understand… IF they mess up, either YOU OR THEY made the mess and MUST learn from it.

Likewise, gun storage laws, if they exist in your jurisdiction.

You can’t even dig a hole in your own front yard. Or at least this guy couldn’t: http://www.nbc11.com/news/9369024/detail.html

Laws that impose responsibility and restrictions upon you, specifically in support of the safety of children you don’t know, include:

age of consent laws
pollution laws
pesticide laws
germicide laws
toy safety laws
alcohol advertising
video game restrictions
foster care laws
physical violence against kids
airbag laws
child porn laws
alcohol purchase laws
child booster seat laws
curfew laws
anti-commercialism in school laws
child labor laws
anti-drug laws
second-hand smoke laws
cigarette sales laws
child care laws
molestation laws

and so on for another 11,7801 laws including one requiring you to drive on the correct side of the road.

And as soon as the sheriff rides into town, internet laws.

That’s how you are forced to look after my child. And I thank you for helping out by obeying these laws.

RBG

Last I counted there were 11, 792 laws that you and others must follow that ensure that my children are kept safe. Here’s just one: In most places there is a law that says you must – whether you want to or not – secure your pool on your own property so some child can’t just wander off the street and drown. I’ll bet a parent insisted on that law. A parent who teaches his or her own child to stay away from pools.

RBG

Old saying about security.
Freedom and security..
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

the idea is that we give up FREEDOM to gain security, to the point that we our in our OWN jails.

the girl had her freedom and learned a VERY good lesson, and I hope it doesnt hinder her in the future. AS you give your children Rules to live by, and they grow, and the rules change, and they gain more freedom, they must be reminded of the BASICS.
You are raiseing an ADULT, not a child. you WISH them to be able to live on their own, and do it well. If they stumble then you can lend a hand, but you CAN NOT pick them up and cuddle them any more, they do not learn that way.
If you have rasied your child well, then they will understand…
If they goof up, and they ARE WRONG, you may not be there, but if they goofed and it was a good cause, you will stand behind them 100%.

as you said,
LOOK into your mail, and see how many WISH to be good to you. OR if they wish to take advantage. the credit card company that has a 0% intro rate, unless YOU miss 1 payment by 1 day, and it goes UP FAST.
The get rish QUICK skems, that want you to advert and sell the SAME thing they sent you.
The bank that would LOVe you to fail on your 20 year mortgage at 19 years, so they can sell the house AGAIN, for MORE money.
The FINE print on EVERY document.
Those resorts that give you something, if you sit Through a 2 hour show/advert..
If you have the money to NOT worry about all this, then I am free for adoption. But, I would suggest you give your kids, over 12+ a good reality check, as i would HATE to see the news when one has disappeared.

Many religions start treating kids at 12+ as adults and even celibrate it, and THEN they know what is expected of them…US WHITE folks like to keep our PET horses as PETS, and our children AS children…
NEWS: THEY ALL GROW UP.

Think of a nasty web site as the mall. And now you have your chance to ask for ID and find a security officer as the child is being dragged away.

Because sheep, er, kids are going to be useful to all of us.

If you further understand that children can’t be supervised 100% of the time, you will then begin to understand why parents feel they have the right and the responsibility to force a certain amount of controls onto others who may pose a danger. That’s actually the “burden onto society” that I am referring to. That we all need to accept certain contraints in our lives and hits to our freedoms (ie: regulations, restrictions or responsibilities imposed upon dangerous activities or web sites) if it means keeping kids safe.

As you illustrate, the other kind: where one adult might feel some responsiblity for another stranger’s child is just a laughable pipe dream.

RBG

You are or will be an excellent parent!! While children cant be monitored %100 of the time…if she had done a good job talking to her daughter about these things…this could have been avoided….my kids will never be allowed IN MY house to have free roam of the interent unsupervised….NO computers in their rooms…and if I am a good parent…then I will know her friends and their parents and make sure that I associate with people who comply with my wishes when she is not in my immediate care…no matter where she is at the time…she is STILL my responsibility. You have to KNOW your kids…its vital these days!!!

If I see someone dragging your daughter Threw a MALL, screaming her head off. If would behove me to STOP them/you and ask whats going on, and ask for ID from both persons. OR at the least, grab a cop or security officeor to help me.

Is it MY responsibility to MONITOR your child? To see if she gets in a stamgers car? WILLINGLY?
analogy: Is it MY responsibility to Watch over someone ELSE’s sheep when the wolf come around, or is it the herders job to keep an eye open and KEEP the sheep away from the Wolf.
Its MY job to WATCH my sheep, and teach them, IF I can, NOT to jump off the cliff and to AVOID the wolf.

I DO, know its hard these days for a parent.
There is ALOT of tech out there, that we dont take/have the time to investigate. And the NEt has made this world ALOT smaller, when a Pedifile can locate your kid from 12,000 miles away.
I do have to make a declaration, as I was REQUIRE to grow up VERY fast and VERY young. And i DO think children should be taught EARLY, and by age 13-14 SHOULD have enough knowledge to KNOW the world ISNT a fantasy world, and that there ARE alot of bad people out there, INCLUDING lawyers and politicians.
DONT wait for your kid to Leave HOME to discover that the WORLD isnt fair or even NICE. At this time, I cant see MOST of the kids out of school, worldly understanding, until they get to 25+ IF AT ALL.

letting your kid wonder the city/town/state/country THINKING that someone ELSE will protect them FROM THEMSELVES, When you havent INSTILLED the basic knowledge of How to protect THEMSLEVES, is foolish and stupid.
At the MOST, someone in the school yard, COULD have asked her WHO that was, Does whe know Him very well, and if its a family member. But, it seems she had few friends, OR she told her friends she had a date with an OLDER man, and they all applauded.

That and the attached graphic almost makes it look like it should be an innocent hangout for young girls. But I’m sure that never happens for all the serious dangers involved.

I’ve calculated that it could be theoretically physically possible for a non-working parent to monitor one child 24 hours. But it involves handcuffs. My scientific formula begins to breakdown when there are two or more children involved. And they are all in different places at the same time.

Unregulated chat rooms for kids are dangerous places. That tends to be the case where killers are free to roam in close contact. We keep kids out of a whole range of inappropriate places in our society without any concern whether it should be the parents responsibility or not. The internet should be no different. The fact that this technology can’t get its act together shouldn’t be my problem. Come back when it can.

Oh, I’m sorry. I guess we’re supposed to deal with the realities of the situation and not what would be optimal. So here’s a reality: innocent children can’t be supervised or controlled 100% of the time. This fact doesn’t absolve parents of their primary responsibility. But it sure does shift some of the burden onto society. It’s like the internet. It’s a reality and you just have to accept it.

RBG

I stand corrected. The blame is solely on both the mother and the rapist.

I thought it was pretty clear that blaming the rapist was just beating a dead horse, as it’s obvious that the rapist was wrong and should be punished for committing the act. So the intention of my statement was really to state that the mother had a responsiblity to protect her daughter from the evils of the world (on the internet or wherever else).

It’s like giving someone a power saw and not explaining to them how to use it. It is a very useful tool, but at the same time, it can be very dangerous too. Proper instruction as to how to use a tool or medium is necessary by a parent to their children as they grow up, including how to make decisions in life and critical thinking.

I look forward to reading next weeks post about how mommy went home empty handed and crying. Maybe some video of the NewsCorp lawyer team giving each other high fives outside the courtroom.