This is really an interesting issue. For some of us it irks us to think of spying but for others it's a question of protecting one's child.
The way I see it though, if one has cable TV one can opt out of stations that contain porn -- I really wanted to subscribe to a movie station when my wife and I changed our cable service but the movie station plays explicite porn from mid-night to 1:30am. Why worry about what the little ones are doing if they wake up in the middle of the night and happen to turn the TV on?
The computer is a whole different story. One can access anything, and I mean that quite literally, on the net (much of it for free). Within 5 seconds (the time it would take to google the term and find the links) you can watch an outstanding LDS video like Joseph, Prophet of the Restoration or you can watch an Islamic terrorist group behead a kdnapped victim. You can look up interesting graphics of the human body that only a while back were only available at medical schools or you can view Japanese porn sites that might make Hugh Hefner blush. There is absolutely no way you can block sites -- I mean, as I have stated earlier you can bypass most net censoring devices by typing in a foreign word to get to porn sites from that country. That's just one of the simplest.
A few days ago I was talking to a non-member guy who was involved in an activity along with my son. The teen knows I am LDS and asked if it was proper for the LDS girl who he went out with for a first date to have wanted to spend hours making out in her car. I merely asked him how he would feel if he had a 17 year old daughter doing that sort of thing and he nodded and completely understood the innapropriatness of the action without too much lecture. Ask your sons and daughters how they would feel if a family member or close friend was starring in a porn video on the net and how that would make them feel. If they have much empathy that might be enough to make them question looking at such things and get rid of the need to monitor them all the time.
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