Low income Kids who are kept indoors for long periods of time are far more likely to fall victim to online predators than those allowed to go out more, claims a new survey.
According to the study, worried parents, in order to protect their children from street dangers, are exposing their kids to dangerous online situations and predators at home.
The experts said that by trying to confine the kids within the house, the parents were actually increasing their kids time spent online looking for ways to entertain themselves.
Based at the London School of Economics, the survey revealed that more than one in four young people in the UK has received “unwanted sexual comments” while using the internet as compared with just one in 10 in other parts of the world.
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2 comments:
I found this study interesting and given that many parents tend to 'parent' in a hands-off approach and don't take an active role in what their children are doing - in particular online. In today's world this is dangerous given the number of sexual predators online and the seeming increase in predator attacks on young children. My wife and are are pro-active and recognize the dangers of the internet and decided to join www.guardchild.com - where we were able to purchase monitoring software and interact with other parents. We will not stand by idle and let our children become the next victim.
James Bradford
Thanks for your comments about this important topic, and for starting this blog. Have you looked at this panel discussion before? - http://www.covenanteyes.com/blog/2008/10/02/experts-speak-about-internet-predators/
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