...and it seems like they didn’t do much to educate him about females in general, or, for that matter, about not believing everything you see on the frigging Internet, in general.
The kid was home-schooled, so he doesn’t have regular exposure (ahem) to female classmates; he did something with his babysitter, but the parents had no idea what; they initiated conversations with him about what women are really like only after he had been educated by porn and, like any person in the full flush of puberty, was entirely convinced that his parents knew nothing.
Hmmm I think you (and others) are a little quick to judge without knowing what avenues were tired and what discussions they had before arriving at the course/s of action they embarked on. It is a short article with the scope of a book and judgements with a tiny subset of facts doesn't make sense.
They should write a book it would be most informative to parents/prospective parents and would likely show they made mistakes, but the CONTEXT of those mistakes could be explored and would likely show them up as rational normal human beings.
The kid was home-schooled, so he doesn’t have regular exposure (ahem) to female classmates; he did something with his babysitter, but the parents had no idea what; they initiated conversations with him about what women are really like only after he had been educated by porn and, like any person in the full flush of puberty, was entirely convinced that his parents knew nothing.