I agree. This is an issue for the parents, not the Govt.
You're right, and parents can do more. Cell phone providers are in the business of keeping customers.
Option 1: My kids, when they're old enough to need a phone for my conveninece, get phones with no text and no picture service specifically to prevent the broad range of problems that includes this one. The main kids' application for text is to communicate with each other during class, which detracts from learning and is against school rules, and pictures are not a positive either. Anyone who doesn't want their kids doing this so easily can get those capabilities disabled. It's not perfect, kids can share phones, but it helps.
Option 2: Involved parenting - raise kids who wouldn't take inappropriate pictures of themselves or of others.
I chose to do both and succeeded at least on #1, I suspect on #2 also but I haven't yet had to find out.
Agreed but it's obvious the parents arent doing their job. These girls need to learn a lesson.
The problem is that most parents today have no clue about parental responsibility, morality, ethics or civil behavior. Explain to me how a responsible mother can take their child to a Monica Lewinsky book signing. Afterall, her only achievement was sucking off the President of the United States.
Parents should be monitoring their children’s behavior, but they’re too busy working or chlling out watching meaningless or worse “reality” programs. How else can one explain parents not knowing their child has assembled an arsenal of weopons in their bedroom or that the garage is being used to make bombs. Obviously parents are not monitoring what their kids are doing with cell phones and Blackberry’s or they would know what stuff their kids are getting into.
My oldest grandson, 13 years old, was given a cell phone by his parents to be used mainly in the event of an emergency. Personal calls are allowed but my son and his wife limit the number of these calls; and they can monitor who he is calling and who is calling him. Most parents can’t be bothered to do that.
Agreed. This is the height of absurdity.