Critical of media but not enough to stop it
Parents told the Kaiser Family Foundation that they check on their children’s MySpace profiles and on the websites their children have visited.
That is, they check on them after the fact, apparently.
Half of the parents surveyed in the Parents, Children and Media study believe that their children aren’t exposed to too much bad stuff.
“They’re living in denial,” says Tim Winter of the Parents Television Council. A 2005 study by the same group showed that half of parents have no rules about television watching. This as the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rules that four-letter words are acceptable at any hour of the day.
What is the goal of parental guidance anyway? Is it nothing more than to keep children from being killed really dead, as opposed to mostly dead? To let them drown a mile from shore as long as it’s not two miles? To let them eat a teaspoon of poison, and to take pride that we would never let them eat a whole tablespoon?
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