Why do parents put parental controls on teens computers?

So kids don't do anything illegal. It's a parents job to do so.

I'm a parent and find it laughable. My 9 year old can get around parental controls, she's never had them imposed on her on our computer for the kids, but has played with the software that came with the computer. She's not even what I'd call a tech-inclined kid, and she can get around it. Most of her friends are more advanced than she is on computers, games systems, etc, and they can get around it quite easily. Parents think their kids are dumb and they try to keep them dumb, but it rarely works.

It's a case of underestimation and a desire to control. I don't want my kids looking at porn, my oldest is only 9 so it's not appropriate, but I'm sure it will happen. Even with blockers set, she has gotten popups of some rather disgusting sites when she was on my old virus-riddled work computer.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I'd rather talk to my kids about pornography and the images they're bombarded with elsewhere, than try to prevent them from seeing it or override their curiosity with guilt, shame and punishment. I talk to them about why it's not realistic or healthy, and why pornography - especially in excess - can create problems with body image, unrealistic expectations, and unhealthy gender ideas. That way if - when - they are exposed to porn, even the horrible images of an over-processed provocatively posed woman plastered on the side of the bus, they will already have the understanding that it isn't real and isn't healthy if it gets out of hand.

Since you are so good at computers look up how many teen girls and boys are victims of rape and kidnapping and even being killed from sexual predators on the net. Parents are just trying to protect their kids from people like that. Religious or not I did the same thing to my kids to keep predators away from them. So while you are helping other kids get around the parental controls on their computers think first because you might end up being the cause of one of them getting into something they can not get out of. Also the next person you meet on line that says they are a girl or boy your age and wants to meet you will you really know that is who they say they are or some rapist or worse.

Because we love and care about you and don't want you to be looking at that sort of thing while in the care of our home. It just how parents are. We are here to protect you from anything wrong, or bad until you are of age to be on your own and your decisions can not be stopped by us. It may be natural, but it would be quite awkward knowing my son is in the other room getting his fancy off by images on the computer screen. I personally find porn offensive and wrong. That's opinion, I know, but I wouldn't want it in my home. We pay the bills, we feed, clothe and support your needs. I think we have a say what goes on in our home. :)

Some parents realize that their children are not mature enough to see certain things or to handle the responsibility of not downloading everything they see.

It could also be a sense of control because teenagers are not the little babies they used to be, so parents cling tightly to what little power they have left over their teens.

Well you are engaging in illegal activities with your, illegal activities which your parents can get in trouble for.

So the reason parents put on parental controls is becuase your actions will impact them.

To monitor and make sure the teens are being safe. Or because they are evil, evil people

Your right some parents don't want a virus on their computer either....