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Adolescent is a period of transition and exploration. In the technological era adolescents spent most of the time with gadgets. They use gadgets in various ways for recreation, education and exploration. Adults may not know how much time they use gadgets for recreation, education and exploration. In the modern era almost all the adolescents spend most of the time with gadgets than with the parents. Gadgets are the machine that gives output whatever the adolescent asks. It will neither hide nor prevent giving information not relevant to their ages as the parents do. The curiosity of the adolescent leads them to technology supported gadget use. Which very often leads them to pornographic sights due to curiosity on sexuality related doubts.India has the third highest porn viewers in the world. After the introduction of high speed internet 4G,there is 40% increase in the use of porn sight.In this descriptive study the researcher aims to portray the role of parents in creating digital responsibilities in their children. The researcher used self-prepared questionnaire among 31 parents from one of the high school in Ernakulum district of Kerala. The researched approached the school PTA and distributed the questionnaire during PTA meeting and received back completely filled questionnaire. More than half of the respondents knows (54.8%) the responsibility of the parents to inform the child on responsible use of gadgets, one fourth of the respondents (25.8%) do not know the responsibility of the parents to inform the child on responsible use of gadgets and 19.4% are doubtful about the responsibility of the parents to inform the child on responsible use of gadgets.