Children: Adult Material Online Debate

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Children: Adult Material Online

Baroness Sharples Excerpts
Wednesday 19th June 2013

(11 years, 10 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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There is, on a number of fronts, including work on troubled families, but I think that the right reverend Prelate’s question merits a more detailed answer, so I shall write to him.

Baroness Sharples Portrait Baroness Sharples
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Why do parents allow their children to have computers in their rooms, and even encourage them?

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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Or televisions, for that matter. I agree. However, it is a fact of life these days, I am afraid, that the internet is the pavement for our children. That is why this is such an important issue, and parents do not understand enough about it.