Did you hear the following about MySpace and parenting today?

A plan by the popular social networking site MySpace.com to let parents monitor the basic personal information their children give out was met with skepticism by officials considering legal action against the site.Plan to let parents track MySpace profiles met with skepticism (USA Today)

MySpace owners are now stepping up their efforts to help parents protect what their kids are doing online. On top of new restrictions on adult users contacting younger users, and tools to identify sex offenders, MySpace is now giving parents more access to their childrens profiles.MySpace Helps Parents Protect Kids (WVLT-TV Knoxville)

FOUR families in the United States whose daughters were sexually assaulted by predators they met on popular internet social network MySpace are suing the owner, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation this week for negligence and fraud.Families sue MySpace over sex predators (The Scotsman)

NEW YORK - Four families have sued News Corp. and its MySpace social-networking site after their underage daughters were sexually abused by adults they met on the site, lawyers for the families said yesterday. …Kin of abused teens sue over sex predators’ use of MySpace (Boston Herald)

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA — MySpace defended itself Thursday against new lawsuits charging that it had failed to protect five girls from being lured into sex traps by predators on the popular teen social Web site.MySpace sued over sex traps (Middle East Times)