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To: Phoenix8

If this story is true, then I disagree with him on this-—parents need to be parents and stop using the government as the “parent”.


2 posted on 04/04/2024 6:37:02 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: mikelets456

*If this story is true, then I disagree with him on this-—parents need to be parents and stop using the government as the “parent”.*

Come on. You have freedom of speech until you work for someone. Look at how many people who have been fired over tweets.

Surgery on transgendered kids w/o parent consent? I really don’t believe it could happen but we can be sure there’s people who think it should.


6 posted on 04/04/2024 6:41:58 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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I would ordinarily agree with you, but when the culture gets so exceedingly saturated with wickedness in the content on social media (we are at that point and beyond), what's a parent to do? Become Amish and move their children to a remote farm with no utilities?

Parents have always relied on reasonable societal guardrails to protect their children when the parent cannot be around. There's nothing wrong with that expectation. Otherwise we might was well become "helicopter" parents to the extreme.

8 posted on 04/04/2024 6:43:52 AM PDT by fwdude ( )
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To: mikelets456

I used to be on education and was around kids a LOT.

Trust me, they get on all the time without their parents knowledge.


23 posted on 04/04/2024 7:23:50 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: mikelets456
If this story is true, then I disagree with him on this-—parents need to be parents and stop using the government as the “parent”.

Indeed, but since parents and schools are increasingly liberal then government should forbid certain things to protect the vulnerable. If adult web sites are off-limits, why not requires parental consent for FB etc.? Yet hardly very enforceable, and unlikely to survive court challenge.

54 posted on 04/04/2024 10:38:46 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts

Yeah - this is gonna work.

About as well as keeping them from viewing online porn!

66 posted on 04/04/2024 12:04:54 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mikelets456

This doesn’t prevent parents from doing their job. It’s akin to the government making it an offense to sell alcohol and cigarettes to children. Do you disagree with that, also? Yes, if someone wants something and has the money to get it, they will do so, but that doesn’t mean we should just give up.


73 posted on 04/04/2024 2:20:29 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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