[webber]

I see. So you go with your children everywhere they go to make sure YOU can snatch them away in case the home or place that they happen to be is showing something you don't want them to watch. RIGHT? Give me a break.

[mhking]

So you go with your children everywhere they go to make sure YOU can snatch them away in case the home or place that they happen to be is showing something you don't want them to watch. RIGHT?

No, I taught my children to make sound decisions.

Case-in-point: When "Power Rangers" first came out, my wife and I determined that it was not a program that we wanted our children to watch. We told them as much.

Two years later, when their cousins visited (who loved watching "Power Rangers"), the cousins wanted to watch that show. My children both told them that they weren't allowed to. Period.

Some parents are not as conscientious as my wife and I are. But the state should not be in the position of playing parent. Televisions have channel blocks now, thanks to the vaunted "V" chip; cable boxes can be progammed to avoid channels; finally, parents can take responsibility ([gasp!] Now there's a novel idea!) and say "No."

But it is not YOUR place to tell me what my child can and cannot watch. I am the parent of my children, and I will make that decision, thank you very much.

[honeygrl]

"I see. So you go with your children everywhere they go to make sure YOU can snatch them away in case the home or place that they happen to be is showing something you don't want them to watch. RIGHT? Give me a break. "

Hopefully you teach them what you consider inappropriate for them to watch and they choose not to watch it when they are old enough to watch it at someone else's house. And if you know they are going to watch smut at a friends house, then you can control that too by not letting them go there.

[Under the Radar]

So you go with your children everywhere they go to make sure YOU can snatch them away in case the home or place that they happen to be is showing something you don't want them to watch. RIGHT? Give me a break.

That is kind of the minimum requirement for being a parent. If you can't control your own children, what makes you think you have the right or moral authority to control others?

Seriously, if you aren't with your kids the vast majority of the time, don't blame the rest of society for what happens to them.