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Look, you’re on the wrong site to be assuming and chastising parents. Most of us have kids who DON’T have internet in their rooms and most also have NO tvs.

I'm just being realistic NMM and don't have my head in the sand over what kids are doing today.Kids today are viewing tons of porn no matter how tight their parents think they are controlling it from their kids lives.

I have only been out of HS for 8 years but remember 2 things well:

The kids who had the most strict/religious parents were in many cases if not majority of the cases the most wild kids and school and the biggest viewers of porn.

Kids are viewing porn today even though they have no internet and TV's in their room. They are going to friends homes who do and they download porn and pass it around on DVD's. Just like Jeff Goldblums famous line in Jurassic Park.." Nature finds a way"

You are not the norm either in terms of not having TV/internet in kids rooms. Most kids today, the vast majority have their own TV an internet in their bedrooms.

Am I telling parents to let their kids go Helter Skelter? NO. But don't be so controlling and strict your kids rebel..gotta cut the cord sometime and let them learn to be adults on their own.

Finally, do you realize how kids joke today about how easy it is today to bypass their parents family controls on the internet??? A monkey can do it.

Your post #33 to netmilsmom...you are generalizing and speaking from only your experience, which is rather limited. There are many kids being brought up the way NMM is saying—I’ve known hundreds of them over the years. A lot of them are homeschoolers and come from Christian families. Nice thing about it that I’ve observed over these past 15 years or so is that they come from large families.

>> The kids who had the most strict/religious parents were in many cases if not majority...

Subjective, non-scientific opinion, and not germane to the value of establishing reasonable moral rules/walls. The “strict/religious” stereotype is an overused Liberal method of attack against the Right. Consider the trends of fatherless homes.

>> Kids are viewing porn today even though they have no internet and TV’s in their room. They are going to friends homes ...

No doubt, and not to forget portable devices.

The internet feed into a home CAN be secured, but I doubt many go the distance to ensure it’s locked down to the expected level.

I homeschool my kids. They rarely go to friends houses without me because we have big family/friend gatherings with other families similar to ours. No TV. No internet porn. My kids aren’t seeing it nor will they any time soon.

Why on earth would I cut the cord to a 14 year old and let him “learn to be an adult”? He’s a child. He can learn to be an adult by doing a man’s work around the house and yard. He can learn to be an adult by learning how to lead his family in prayer. Becoming an adult does not mean looking at porn. Becoming an adult means learning that there are just some things best avoided for the sake of your soul.

Now, when they are all grown and have moved out of the house, I can only pray that I have taught them to be respectable and respectful and that it will stick long after that cord is broken.

I’m guessing since you’ve only been out of high school 8 years that you don’t have teenagers yet. Get back to me on how you raise your own children when they’ve gotten a little older.