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CHILDREN
ONLINE SAFETY STATISTICS
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An
estimated 725,000 children have been
"aggressively" asked for sex, defined as
an offer to meet in person. (Congressional Study
submitted June 8, 2000)
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The
Internet allows people to talk and view material of
anyone in the world, including individuals with a
criminal mind. It is essential that you monitor a
child's online activities and we provide the
software to accomplish that. Only
1/3 of the households with Internet access are
proactively protecting their children with filtering
or blocking software.
Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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75%
of children are willing to share personal
information online about themselves and their family
in exchange for goods and services.
eMarketer
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About
25 percent of the youth who encountered a sexual
approach or solicitation told a parent.
Youth Internet Safety Survey
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One
in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to the
Internet say they have received an unwanted sexual
solicitation via the Web. Solicitations were defined
as requests to engage in sexual activities or sexual
talk, or to give personal sexual information.
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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One
in 33 youth received an aggressive sexual
solicitation in the past year. This means a predator
asked a young person to meet somewhere, called a
young person on the phone, and/or sent the young
person correspondence, money, or gifts through the
U.S. Postal Service.
Youth Internet Safety Survey
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77%
of the targets for online predators were age 14 or
older. Another 22% were users ages 10 to 13.
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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75
percent of the solicited youth were not troubled, 10
percent did not use chat rooms and 9 percent did not
talk to strangers.
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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Only
25% of solicited children were distressed by their
encounters and told a parent.
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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Only
17 percent of youth and 11 percent of parents could
name a specific authority, such as the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), CyberTipline, or an
Internet service provider, to which they could
report an Internet crime.
Youth Internet Safety Survey
Be
Proactive and Get Protection @ http://www.ParentalSpy.com
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MySpace and Facebook
Monitoring Tools - What
are your children seeing on MySpace
and FaceBook?
You're
a sensible, safety-conscious parent. You don't let your
children decorate their rooms with violent or
pornographic images. You have made it clear that you
won't tolerate swearing. You certainly wouldn't approve
of them bringing home friends who call themselves
SuicideLullaby or PeeStandingUp. So why would you let
them get away with all this and more on MySpace and Facebook?
MySpace and Facebook
is a growing phenomenon, popular with teens all across
the globe. It is easy to understand its appeal. Each
person creates their own page, their own
"space", where they can express themselves
without parental monitoring or censorship, and form
bonds with other people online. In some ways, MySpace and Facebook
is very traditional - girls have pink pages where they
talk about love and kittens, and boys use darker shades
and boast about their drunken escapades.
But
it doesn't stop there. A quick browse through MySpace and Facebook
shows that many of the girls are putting up
scantily-clad photos of themselves. There's swearing,
talk of drug use, and suicidal poetry. In short, there
are many things on MySpace and Facebook that you would
never want your children to see. Sometimes, the dangers
of MySpace and Facebook spread to the real world, as
certain news
stories about sexual predators illustrate.
Many
parents have already discovered the horrors of MySpace and Facebook.
A well-known Internet safety expert recently revealed
that she receives about 1,000 emails a day from parents
who are upset about what they've seen on MySpace and Facebook.
So what can you do? Be
Proactive and Get Protection @ http://www.ParentalSpy.com
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