We tell our children not to talk to strangers online. Some of us put monitoring software on our child’s devices that will alert us to any messaging between minors and online predators. We are told this is good parenting. We are told that we should monitor our kids online and teach them about the predators out there who want to talk to them about sex and groom them to leave their families and meet strangers. Kids are victims of this type of grooming every day. Everyone remembers To Catch a Predator with Chris Hanson, right? The entire show revolved around an adult pretending to be a child online who gets messages from predators. They arrange to meet, then the predator shows up at the location to find Hanson and his camera crew waiting instead of a child.
