“Dads visiting pornographic websites” were the most common complaint, but more than 100 Swedish children last year asked for help in dealing with Mom or Dad’s internet habits.
One 13-year old girl wrote:
“I know it sounds ridiculous but my mother has started playing the computer game WoW, World of Warcraft … This summer she has been sitting up all day and all night and she forgets what’s important to me. And when she’s not at the computer she’s like a lost soul. She just looks straight ahead and says nothing. I’m not doing so well.”
Kids aren’t well-equipped to compete for Mom and Dad’s monetizable eyeballs. The kingdom of Bhutan was recently shocked to discover that more than 35% of parents would rather watch TV than talk to their children. What do you suppose that percent is in the US? Are more than 65% of US parents passing up Warcraft and chat rooms and prime time TV to spend meaningful family evenings with Alex and Zoe?
Could some level 70 Paladin deal with this, please?
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1 TA // Jul 7, 2008 at 8:55 am
I suppose Swedish kids could try reading the new FRA law to their porn-surfing dads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law
On the other hand, if the dads then run out to demonstrate against the law
http://www.thelocal.se/12824/20080703/
they may run into live scantily clad samba girls
http://www.thelocal.se/articleImages/12810.jpg
And then there’s really no knowing what might happen.