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PARENTAL
SPY - FACTS & STATS
Our
children are at a higher risk to be victims of Internet
crimes than most parents realize. Don't be uninformed.
Understand the scope of the problem, facts and figures to
identify the benefits of childhood Internet activity and
where your child may be in danger online.
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CHILDREN
ONLINE SAFETY STATISTICS
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An
estimated 725,000 children have been
"aggressively" asked for sex, defined
as an offer to meet in person. (Congressional
Study submitted June 8, 2000)
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The
Internet allows people to talk and view material
of anyone in the world, including individuals
with a criminal mind. It is essential that you
monitor a child's online activities and we
provide the software to accomplish that.
Only 1/3 of the households with Internet access
are proactively protecting their children with
filtering or blocking software.
Center for Missing and Exploited Children
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75%
of children are willing to share personal
information online about themselves and their
family in exchange for goods and services.
eMarketer
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About
25 percent of the youth who encountered a sexual
approach or solicitation told a parent.
Youth Internet Safety Survey
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One
in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to
the Internet say they have received an unwanted
sexual solicitation via the Web. Solicitations
were defined as requests to engage in sexual
activities or sexual talk, or to give personal
sexual information.
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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One
in 33 youth received an aggressive sexual
solicitation in the past year. This means a
predator asked a young person to meet somewhere,
called a young person on the phone, and/or sent
the young person correspondence, money, or gifts
through the U.S. Postal Service.
Youth Internet Safety Survey
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77%
of the targets for online predators were age 14
or older. Another 22% were users ages 10 to 13.
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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75
percent of the solicited youth were not
troubled, 10 percent did not use chat rooms and
9 percent did not talk to strangers.
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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Only
25% of solicited children were distressed by
their encounters and told a parent.
Crimes Against Children Research Center
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Only
17 percent of youth and 11 percent of parents
could name a specific authority, such as the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),
CyberTipline, or an Internet service provider,
to which they could report an Internet crime.
Youth Internet Safety Survey
Be
Proactive and Get Protection @ http://www.ParentalSpy.com
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MySpace
and Facebook Monitoring Tools
- What are your
children seeing on MySpace and FaceBook?
You're a
sensible, safety-conscious parent. You don't let your
children decorate their rooms with violent or pornographic
images. You have made it clear that you won't tolerate
swearing. You certainly wouldn't approve of them bringing
home friends who call themselves SuicideLullaby or
PeeStandingUp. So why would you let them get away with all
this and more on MySpace and Facebook?
MySpace
and Facebook is a growing phenomenon, popular with teens all
across the globe. It is easy to understand its appeal. Each
person creates their own page, their own "space",
where they can express themselves without parental
monitoring or censorship, and form bonds with other people
online. In some ways, MySpace and Facebook is very
traditional - girls have pink pages where they talk about
love and kittens, and boys use darker shades and boast about
their drunken escapades.
But it
doesn't stop there. A quick browse through MySpace and
Facebook shows that many of the girls are putting up
scantily-clad photos of themselves. There's swearing, talk
of drug use, and suicidal poetry. In short, there are many
things on MySpace and Facebook that you would never want
your children to see. Sometimes, the dangers of MySpace and
Facebook spread to the real world, as certain news
stories about sexual predators illustrate.
Many
parents have already discovered the horrors of MySpace and
Facebook. A well-known Internet safety expert recently
revealed that she receives about 1,000 emails a day from
parents who are upset about what they've seen on MySpace and
Facebook. So what can you do? Be
Proactive and Get Protection @ http://www.ParentalSpy.com

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you, thank you, thank you!! Thanks to your product, I found
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