Moral Question and Access of Internet in Middle Class Families

Internet and the Moral issues have always been the two sides of a coin especially for the Indian middle class families. On one side the mind blowing features of the internet, providing knowledge, instantaneous, worldwide, interactive and the list goes on. On the other hand, the issues related to moral and social values like porn, chatting with strangers, cut out from the outer world, ruining the social life and again the list goes on….

In our middle class Indian families moral values are the assets and no one can beat them in the world. These moral values come into the way when it comes to the internet world. Parents in the middle class families are afraid that if they got internet at their home children will be spoiled by the negative effects of the internet. It’s the tendency in Indian middle class to protect the children from any bad things weather many good things associated with them also goes untouched. Fear of being addicted to porn, fear of being making strangers as friends, fear of being spoiling the social and childhood life and all these fears because a seed of evil will grow 100 times faster than a seed of goodness. Parents are absolutely right because the way kids are getting maturity is a matter of discussion for the parents as well as the society, but that does not mean that the children of middle class families should be deprived of internet just because of other fellow children who do ass such kinds of nonsense activities.

Now the question arises that how moral values be maintained and simultaneously access to internet has also be provided to the children especially of Indian middle class families. For this parents have to come on the front to take it as a challenge. They should take time from their busy schedule to give time to their children and tell them the pros and corns of the internet, give them certain assignments so that their interest related to internet gets built up, fixing their internet usage hours, giving them a platform to read on the internet and lots and lots of things that a parent can do in order to generate energy and good ideas in the mind of a child related to internet such that the other side of the internet remains away from the child. But what if the parents themselves are not aware of internet??? A big question to worry!!!! Children want internet, parents have no knowledge what it is?? But they know that it can harm children in many ways, so NO NO NO NO to internet. This is a major problem in Indian middle class families. This problem can also be eradicated but if parents want so.

Parents could join the internet classes and can have a look at both the sides of the coin before giving the access to children, so that their doubts can be cleared, moral values can be retained and children also gets the access to the internet.