[plan2succeed.org]

Sorry, you are incorrect. Being with your children is not enough where the libraries allow unfiltered access to the Internet. For example, here's a lady in a library with her grandchildren where one went to the bathroom and her life was changed forever: 8 Year Old Girl Attacked in a Public Library. I can't blame her for this, can you?

This is in part the very reason why SafeLibraries.org is in existence -- to counteract the pervasive effects of decades worth of misinformation from the ALA.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

For example, here's a lady in a library with her grandchildren where one went to the bathroom and her life was changed forever: 8 Year Old Girl Attacked in a Public Library.

Where does regulating and monitoring Internet websites fit into this? The homeless man who tried to the rape the girl received a lengthy prison sentence. In other words, the law worked. Why try to exploit a sad situation to pursue an agenda, which you obviously have?

[phoenix0468]

"Sorry, you are incorrect. Being with your children is not enough where the libraries allow unfiltered access to the Internet. For example, here's a lady in a library with her grandchildren where one went to the bathroom and her life was changed forever: 8 Year Old Girl Attacked in a Public Library. I can't blame her for this, can you?"

No I can't blame the grandmother for the actions of another person. But your initial comment about libraries allowing unfiltered access to the Internet and the 8 year old getting attacked are two unassociated issues. Also, I am sure the Grandmother feels a great deal of guilt for not going into the bathroom with her granddaughter. If it were my own child (being that she is 9 years old) I would not leave her alone in a public place at all, ever. Please remember that I do not fault the grandmother in any way, but the circumstances warrented, IMO, her accompanying her granddaughter to the bathroom. But that's just my opinion.

[phoenix0468]

Also, you obviously missed the part that I mentioned about keeping your child safe in a public place. NEVER LEAVE THEIR SIDE!!! NOT FOR ONE MOMENT!!! IT WILL PUT YOUR CHILD AT RISK!!! YOUR CHILD IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!!! WATCH THEM ALWAYS!!! EVEN WHEN YOUR NOT THERE, HAVE SOMEONE YOU CAN TRUST TO DO THE SAME!!!

It is the fault of a perpetrator when a child is molested or harmed, that is indisputable. But the parent MUST take some responsibility for allowing that child to be put in a situation for them to have been harmed. That is my opinion. It is what I and many here would call COMMON SENSE!!! Which is highly lacking, mostly among deadbeat liberals and libertarians who want the government to take care of us and our children.

That is about the craziest thing I could think of. The last entity I would ever want having any responsibility over myself or my child is the government. They can't even take responsibility for their own actions most of the time, much less that of a childs.