People should raise their kids better. Let them know the kind of dangers that exist in our world. Teach them what to and not to do, and most importantly, be cautious on what kind of things they can access online.
All that paired up with a bad environment to raise your kids in, and you may have tons of situations similar to this film.
You're right, they should. Unfortunately, many parents today are heading in the opposite direction and are refusing to educate their children about these things. They flip out at the schools that try teaching sex-ed because they claim they don't want the schools talking to their kids about sex, etc., but yet they refuse to talk to their kids at home. They wrongly think that if they keep their kids in the dark, their kids won't encounter things like this and they can keep their kids innocent. Which is pretty much what this movie portrays. The parents didn't talk to their daughter about sex, trying to keep her innocent, and it left her vulnerable to Charlie.
shareAbsolutely. My brother and I discussed this the other day and since we live in a predominantly black area, girls as young as 14 are sneaking off to meet with men in their late 20s into their 40s because black men naturally have swagger and it's all that matters to these girls, along with the attention they seek to get from these men because of their early sexual growth and knowledge; absent fathers are another big reason for it. But with the parents avoiding this matter with their kids do help to increase this epidemic.
shareYou can teach them and tell them all the dangers of the internet but you can't be with them all the time and hover over them like a helecoptor. Teens are still going to do stupid $hit no matter how much you teach them.
shareIn this case, however, it's almost totally possible to prevent something like this from happening. That means not giving your teenage daughter access to her own phone and computer. You can buy cell phones with limited plans that do not include internet access, and if you must have a computer, you station it in a communal family location along with having parental controls over what the teen can and cannot access. Sure, they can be exposed to other things outside the home on other people's computers, but the exposure would be limited.
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I sure as hell never agreed to meet up with a stranger that I talked with online, when I was young. Yes, there's certain reckless actions, but then there's utter stupidity. If a teen does this, than he/she has serious intelligence issues.
shareSure, John, blame the 14 year old victim for being taken in by a pedophile con artist. BTW, I hate to break it to you but even the most intelligent people can be conned because intelligence and emotionally fragility are not mutually exclusive.
shareYeah, parents should raise their kids better... by teaching their sons not to grow up to be pedophiles and/or rapists.
sharethe thing is predators are simply con artists
they know how to push a persons buttons and literally control them.
they pray on a persons insecurities and weaknesses even the best raised person could fall for there con
Actually it's not society, or the parents, or the victim, or anyone else who is to blame. The blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the criminal who committed the crime.
People like you make me sick, wanting to displace blame onto the shoulders of the family of the victims, maybe even the victims themselves. Tell me, when an adult woman gets raped do you immediately ask "What was she wearing? What was she even doing there?". You sound like someone who does.
The perpetrator isn't solely to blame here. In this case, the victim definitely shares in the blame. And the fact that she's this stupid, the people who raised her share in the blame as well.
"Thin line between heaven and here" - Bubblesshare
Actually it's not society, or the parents, or the victim, or anyone else who is to blame. The blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the criminal who committed the crime.
Criminals commit crimes because they live in an environment where the opportunity is there, and the payoff exceeds the risk.
In addition, they were likely not raised in a way that would reinforce good behaviors and discourage bad behaviors.
If that were the case no one ever would have committed, say, murder back when the penalty was much more gruesome than it is now but they did. They took a HUGE risk, and for what normal (for lack of a better word) people would see as no payoff whatsoever. Of course, in the mind of a murderer the payoff always exceeds the risk
Why do sexual predators exist? Because they always have, and they always will. Humans are a brilliant yet highly flawed species, exhibiting behaviors that can only be found in highly intelligent animals. In fact, when it comes to primates the higher up the ladder you go the more chance there is for aberrant behavior. If it were all the fault of society, then why do these criminals exist in every type of society humans have ever created, and why don't all the people within that society exhibit the same behavior? Quite obviously the brain of individual come into play.
Lastly, yes, they become sexual predators because they feel like it. I don't really care about the reasons WHY they feel like it. They know it's wrong, they know it's illegal, and they do it anyway. I'll blame society when society decides to make these crimes legal. Until then, I'll blame the one who actually commits the crime.
If you don't care WHY they feel like it, then you aren't really interested in solving the problem. Because answering the WHY is the first part to solving a problem.
But as long as you are on your high horse, you cannot change anything.