INTERNET SAFETY FACTS
What Every Parent Should Know
- Nine out of ten children aged between eight and sixteen have viewed pornography on the Internet. In most cases, the sex sites were accessed unintentionally when a child, often in the process of doing homework, used a seemingly innocent sounding word to search for information or pictures.- London School of Economics, January 2002
- Pornographic web pages now top 260 million and growing at an unprecedented rate.- N2H2, 9/23/03
- 345% increase in child pornography sites between 2/2001-7/2001. - N2H2 press release, 8/01
- Sex is the #1 searched for topic on the Internet. - Dr. Robert Weiss, Sexual Recovery Institute, Washington Times 1/26/2000
- 1 in 5 (children) received a sexual solicitation or approach in the last year.
- 1 in 33 (children) received an aggressive sexual solicitation (asked to meet, called them via phone, sent mail, money or gifts).
- 25% of youth who received a sexual solicitation told a parent. - Online Victimization, NCMEC, June 2000
- A new web site appears every 22 seconds, more than 3,900 new sites every day. Today at least 85 of those new sites will be selling commercial pornography." - WebChaperone Fact Sheet, Webco International
- The survey found that 90% of teens and young adults have gone online, and that half (49%) of those online plug in once a day or more. Three out of four young people (74%) have access at home, and nearly one in three (31%) has access from their own bedroom.
- The Kaiser Family Foundation in consultation with International Communications Research, 2001
- Parents rely mostly on personal observation and setting guidelines for their children's Internet access. One in two parents do not use any blocking or filtering software. - Family PC Survey, August, 2001
- 60% of all web-site visits are sexual in nature. - MSNBC/Standford/Duquesne Study, Washington Times, 1/26/2000
- 26 popular children's characters, such as Pokemon, My Little Pony and Action Man, revealed thousands of links to porn sites. 30% were hard-core. - Envisional 2000
- 44 percent of children polled have visited x-rated sites or sites with sexual content. Moreover, 43 percent of children said they do not have rules about Internet use in their homes. - Time/CNN Poll, 2000
- Pornographers disguise their sites (i.e. "stealth" sites) with common brand names, including Disney, Barbie, ESPN, etc., to entrap children.- Cyveillance Study, March 1999
- The majority of teenagers' online use occurs at home, right after school, when working parents are not at home.
- Arbitron New Media Study, October 1999
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