The emergence of the internet, and associated technologies like email and instant messaging, present problems for todays parents that were unimaginable just twenty years ago. Children use computers for homework, surf the web at their leisure and socialize through instant messaging activities that are often outside direct parental control and by themselves leave little or no record of their occurrence.
Some parents attempt to solve the problem by banning computer use entirely or allowing it only when a parent directly supervises, but most find this is not a realistic solution and places their child at an academic and social disadvantage compared to other children. On the other hand, unfettered access to a computer with access to the internet poses real dangers to children. Consider the following:
Computer-sex offenders almost always meet potential victims in instant message chat rooms. Chat rooms grant these predators anonymity and a belief their instant messages are not monitored or recorded.
The average age of first exposure to pornography is over the internet is 11 years old.
The FBI recommends you monitor your child’s access to all...
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