to catch a perv

Everyone knows the Dateline "To Catch a Predator" specials: they lure people trying to meet up with youngsters to have sex, into a house, then arrest them. Well, the front page of our local paper this morning has an article about how this was just done mere miles from our home. Scary. The episode is to air in July sometime and I am more freaked than usual about the whole cybernet-porn-perverts. What freaks me out even more, is that their seem to be so many children who are on the net, unsupervised. I know my kiddies are tiny-tiny and I don't have too worry about this yet, but I have already sworn to hubby that they will never have a computer in their room. I know that parents of adolescents everywhere would think "this chick don't know what she's in for with a teen", and that is true. But shouldn't we start paying more attention to why our children feel the need to speak to unknowns? I have enough trouble trying to keep in touch with the people I already know!