At 12:48 AM -0700 7/19/96, Mike Duvos wrote: <Long argument that children should be exposed to every idea, omitted> This is simply incorrect. It is a supportable advocacy for most adults, but children's minds tend to be like sponges--everything they take in (up until a certain age) is thought to be true, interesting, worth experimenting with, based on authority, etc. Read Piaget. What is more, a parent can't watch them every second while they're on the net, nor will they ask all the questions they should about certain material they see. I'd no more permit young kids to view gay or bestial or porno sites on the net than I'd let them view propaganda for how good pigs taste (unsupervised), if I were an orthodox Jew. When they've passed the developmental stage (I rely on the experts in this field for that determination) where they have independent critical judgement and the security to exercise it, THEN I would open up their horizons. I speak as a father who has raised four children who turned out to be independent beings to successful adulthood and families of their own, not as a theoretician. David