Here’s what I just don’t understand: the trend among professing
Christian families to give their pre-teen children iPhones and iPads or
their equivalent devices, with unrestricted Internet access.
It’s not that we don’t have the data to know what happens when
sexually-forming minds are exposed to pornography. And it’s not that we
don’t know the kind of pull to temptation, especially among young males,
that comes with the promise of sexual “fulfillment” with the illusion
of anonymity. It’s not that we don’t know, moreover, the way that
unsavory characters use the Internet to troll for naive children to
exploit.
Why would you put your child in a situation of that kind of peril?
Given what we know about a.) sexually developing adolescents and
pre-adolescents and b.) the Internet itself, it is impossible to rank
unrestricted access to the World Wide Web in a category with watching
television or freely roaming the neighborhood. This is more like sending
your adolescent male to spend the night in an adult movie theater
because you trust him not to look up from his Bible, or allowing your
daughter to grow marijuana in her room because she likes the bud as
decoration. Continue at Russell D. Moore
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