[Sin]

Alright, I don't have kids, but I'll play along & pretend for a few minutes that I do.

I will have the net at home, that much is certain. They will not be "hanging out at net cafe's" they will be online at home, or at school. I have yet to find a 13-15 year old kid who would rather use their allowance money on "internet" than "candy" (or, in other terms, I have yet to find a kid that age who will pay for something that is readily accessible at home to them anyways)

As far as spam goes, and unsupervised emails go, well there are ways around that. Yes they can start out writing emails to grandma & grandpa though one of my emails when they're little. When they're older, I'll let them have an email of their own through one of the free email providers, and I'll even help them set it up. I'll get it set up with filters & everything. Hotmail filters when used properly, do actually work amazingly well. Then, when its all set up, I'll show them how to change the password to something they want, and something that only they know. This way they have the security the filters provide, (which is a lot when used properly) they have their "own" email, and the fact that its theirs & not a supervised or parent controlled one, will more than likely keep them from signing up a new one... at the very least, until they reach an age where I'm not going to be all that concerned about them seeing porn spam and it having a "lasting/damaging effect" of any kind on them.

Parents are FAR too quick to pass on blame, the kid is theirs, the responsibility is theirs both to protect their child from stuff like this, as well as educate themselves enough that they are able to do so effectively.