Today's responsible parents are using internet filtering software to protect their children from predators on the internet. Responsible parents want to know and monitor what their children are doing online, safeguard their privacy, stop pornography and other objectionable material from coming into their home, and limit their children's online activities.
- Children and teenagers use computers and the internet more than any other age group.
- Ninety percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17 (or 48 million) now use computers.
- Seventy-five percent of 14-17 year olds and 65 percent of 10-13 year olds use the internet.
- Family households with children under the age of 18 are more likely to access the internet (62%) than family households with no children (53%), and non-family households (35 %).
- Source: A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use of the Internet, February 2005 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
The major film studios, television networks, and record labels have been forced by Federal legislation to restrict minors' access to adult material. However, no such legislation has been passed covering the internet. Activists definitely support the unrestricted right of any adult of legal age to view any legal content they so desire. But our children need to be supervised and restricted from either accidentally stumbling into an adults-only area on the internet, or being lured there by a predator.
Therefore, parents should conduct research to discover and evaluate new internet filter software to assist them in their quest for safety.
Source: http://www.parentalguidance.org/
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