Parents letting children swear?

[Matt]

Children of that age should not swear but I guess it's their family and parents that pass it on. I'm not allowed to swear around my parents or family as my brother is still quite young, but once he starts using them, I can see our house will be full of them lmao. I use them a lot out of the house with my mates and stuff but I have to be really careful what I say around my parents. Telling my dad 'to get stuffed' in a more direct and rude way really didn't get my anywhere lel

[MKR&*42]

I don't mind that much. I only really care if someone swears excessively, but if like someone idk drops someone and says "oh for ***** sake" then I'd totally understand as it's a spur of the moment thing.

I don't swear that much irl anymore and if I had kids (laughs) I would try not to swear around them, but yeah they're obv gonna learn it at school or from tv so it's not always parents fault no matter how hard they try to discipline them.

[Astronomist]

Sound like white trash kids to me.

[crystaldd0]

I know a lot of parents who think it's quite funny when their toddlers start learning swear words. It's almost like they encourage them to swear for their own amusement, so then the kid learns to think its okay to do so whenever, then if the kid decides to start using the words at the wrong time they get punished for it... Personally, I don't think small toddlers/young children should be allowed to use adult language. It's adult language for a reason, and it's fairly rude. I'm 19 and I still don't feel comfortable using swear words.

[Absently]

obviously they shouldn't be swearing but shouting out a window just seems far worse to me and i'd hope they got a telling off for that. i don't mind people swearing, obviously in excess or when you can tell they're purposely trying to swear (mostly i've noticed in younger teenagers). i swear sort of accidentally, like it just falls off my tongue which i have to try and bite my tongue because i work around kids. i can't remember if my mother swore around me as a kid, i assume not when i was extremely young but as i got older she didn't care too much, i don't mind swearing around my mum and sometimes when you're explaining something it gets the point across if you're talking about something in particular. i wouldn't use it as an insult towards her obviously because that's just respect ;p

[Hannah]

Let's face it - swearing wouldn't even exist if we hadn't created it.
It's a manmade product, we made it 'bad'.

Agreeably, I disagree with parents swearing in front of their children - but they're going to do it in the future anyway, so we may as well let them lessen the derogatory meanings sooner rather than later - then they can become just words.

[Eric]

They're probably swearing without even understanding what they actually mean but children shouldn't have any reason to swear and adults shouldn't encourage them as well. Unnecessary swearing is not needed too