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Comment by setecgastronomy

> Children given unsupervised access to the internet is ridiculous.

Why?

> People freak out if a predator lives int heir neighborhood but they let their child be accessible to millions of predators via their phone or table.

Well advise the kids of the dangers. I and most of my friends had unsupervised internet access. We are all doing fine.

> This is why kids initial exposure to porn is 8 in the US and 10 when kids are getting addicted.

Every kid is getting "addicted"?

> I still remember working with children and teens and found out, through the police and parents, that a few of the kids 11 to 15 were using their webcams to get people to buy them stuff online. This was in the late 90s.

And guess what? 99.99% of 90s kids didn't use webcams.

> My job as a parent is to help them become awesome adult selves and learning not to be addicted to anything from drugs, alcohol, laziness or phones is part of being a parent.

No offense, but your kids aren't prepared for the real world. What will they do now that they are adults with no parental supervision. Also, no parent with 5 kids is "responsible".

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