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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
"Thank
you, thank you, thank you!! Thanks to your product, I found my child
talking to a potential internet predator and prevented an imminent
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