Teens and porn - We need to move with the times

All too often, parents in the past were lulled into a false sense of security that their children were occupied watching television, but it was largely controlled. Now children have the added distractions of video games or the internet, which is essentially unmonitored, because they can expose children to dangerous levels of explicit sex and violence.

Children are frequently more adept at finding their way around the internet than their parents. They can find things that their parents could probably never find.

“Every parent gives out about the next generation,” proclaimed one of the boys interviewed in today’s feature on sex, porn and teens. “The past generation probably did the exact same stuff.”