Kids are imitators. Try this try that, see what feels right and integrate it, see what feels yukky and drop it. The process of growning up. Unfortunately, the barrage of sexually explicit imagry bombarding our kids..... it fills their awareness, they want to try it out, with absolutely no comprehension of the dangers until they face them.

In a world of functional adults, these experimenting children would be protected from their inexperience by loving adults who WOULD NOT THINK OF GOING THERE with the innocent, who're just trying to figure life, and their place in it, out.

Context. Information without context is ungrounded and subject to speculation and imagination. Normal curiosity has been distorted by our cultural emphasis on sex. The net just makes all the bad possibilities very convenient.

Aren't adults supposed to have figured out right from wrong and pass it on? Isn't that, like um, a definition of adult?

All freedom demands accountability. Freedom isn't free. Free speach does not include the right to yell fire in a crowded theater, nor does it give you the right to threaten or assault others... or manipulate a child's curiosity to your own sick advantage.

Society's job is to protect it's children until they can protect themselves. Society is no longer supporting "the family" even though those currently in power yell family values a lot....

A society in which a full time job does not provide enough money for a family's basic needs, is not pro family in my book.
Families in which( both) parents are forced to work until they're dropping in their tracks and yet still falling behind cannot be expected to be there for their kids. Can't.

Our kids are raising themselves on media images instead of "neighborhood"or "natural" in the flesh reality....... it really does take a village.... where respect is THE founding value.
Hanging out for hours on your knees gardening, chatting about a million different things, one on one, used to be normal. Intimacy. Really knowing each other. Bonding human to human. Now our kids bond with their eletronic gadgets.
It's a whole different world out there..... and it's not the kids' fault.