What is going on here?!?

I'm just sitting here reading through different areas of discussion on this board and I keep coming across questions from school age kids about their homework. Not questions like "Could someone please explain this or give an example of that," but "What is the answer to this calculus problem?" Or "Can someone write a poem for me?" And if that isn't bad enough, people are actually giving them what they want! Come on, people. Are honor and character completely dead? Why aren't people telling these kids to do their own work?! I'm bewildered by this.