Meh. I think that in a stable household with a stable child who has good character, the Internet is just another tool to connect with people. With every new technology, someone raises hue and cry about how it is the downfall of the young. The telephone, the television, and now computers (just to name a few), and society is still standing. I plan to warn my kids of the dangers of "sexting" and that sort of thing, and to let them know that once it is on the Internet, it's there forever. That's the one change that really matters. A dumb mistake can haunt a person forever because the Net has a long memory. But I don't think that much else has changed.
Personally, I'd teach a DD that "playing a guy" is a lousy thing to do, that it might have undesireable consequences, and that she should be a nicer person than that. But plenty of women get abused or raped who didn't "set themselves up for it." And that has gone on since there were men and women. It's nothing new.
I am not sorry to have two boys though. Just trying to dress girls so they don't look like miniature hookers seems like a Herculean task!
