Questions That Parents May Ask:

Today, lots of children go on chatting websites like MySpace, FaceBook, CrushSpot and other websites that seem to not be all that safe. These things make parents wonder, Is my child safe? I hope that he/she knows about all the dangers out there. Well, since most parents wonder, I’ll wonder with them. So I’ve chosen to ask myself a couple of questions to answer to the best of my knowledge.
- What’s so fun about these websites?
- Do the children know of the dangers that are out there?
- Don’t some of them have younger siblings, and if they do,
then wouldn’t they follow in their older brother’s /sister’s footsteps?
- Are their parents around when they go to these chatting websites?
- Do they know what they are getting themselves into?
- Aren’t these children afraid of getting kidnapped?
- Do they willingly meet people that they do not know in groups or alone?
- Why isn’t the government doing anything about the children chatting on websites?

Since parents have wondered these questions that I have asked myself, I can try my best to answer my own questions on behalf of the parents. The reasons why these websites are fun to children are because of the excitement that comes from doing everything on these sites. You can visit other pages, talk to numerous amounts of people, and even get to talk to your friends, all online. Yes, children are aware of all the dangers that are out there, they just learn to look out for them and expect that there always is a dangerous person outside their doorstep. There’s always a child with a younger sibling. Some siblings follow in the same footsteps as their older brother or sister, but others just wonder what would happen if they tried that. Because of me being a younger sibling to seven sisters and one brother, I understand that some younger siblings can take after older siblings, and others choose to go their own separate ways in life. I’m not really sure if their parents are around when children decide to go to these chatting websites; if parents do know, then children are aware of all the dangers out there, and some parents don’t even know these kinds of websites exist. Willingly meeting people is a whole different story. I don’t think that kids just wake up one day and go Hey; let’s go meet some people, maybe in a group or alone;That’s completely stupid. No kid in their right mind would do that. I think that children have their own instincts. These instincts help most children realize that they shouldn’t do certain things. Either that or it’s God working a way through to the children. So long story short, if children willingly go meet, then most likely, they might go in groups but some decide that they are grown enough to go by themselves. My response to my last questions is, what can the government do about this? They aren’t doing anything and that’s what they’ll keep doing, nothing. The constitution states that people have the freedom of speech, writing, and publicity as much and as loud as they wish to say, do, or anything other way of being a free person. This may help parents more than what I thought at first, but now I’m starting to see that there are a lot of things I’m sure of and this, I’m extremely confident about.