Kids and Internet Use

The Raleigh News and Observer released an article that covers the recent release of a study completed by researchers showing that parents have a good reason to worry about their kid's access to the internet. The study published in Pediatrics found that 42 percent of youngsters 10 to 17 years of age had been exposed to pornography in the past year. Some of this is intentional, with boys seeking out sexually explicit material much more frequently than girls. However, the rates of incidental or unwarranted exposure are high and increasing, with about one-third of teens ending up on a pornography site when they were seeking other information. The article gives readers a list of what parents can do to protect their children without taking the extreme action of not allowing them to use the internet. Click here to access the complete article.
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/794926.html