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Internet Dangers to Children and What You Can Do
Copyright © 2006, Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D.
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The Internet is an extraordinary tool for parents to learn
how to be more effective and successful in raising children.
Unfortunately, the Internet is also a place where children can
be seriously endangered and victimized by sexual predators.
A study by the British NOP Research Group found that of the four
million children aged seven to 17 who surf the net, 29% percent
would freely give out their home address and 14% would freely
give out their e-mail address if asked
A Parents' Internet Monitoring Study (2005) prepared for Cox
Communications, the National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, and NetSmartz, determined that nearly three out of
10 parents in their study didn't know or were not sure if
their children talk to strangers online.
An even more shocking report by The Crimes Against Children
Research Center titled Online Victimization: A Report on the
Nation's Youth (2000) found that one in five youth using the
Internet receive online sexual solicitations.
These dangers have recently become more widely acknowledged as
more young people are using the Internet for social networking
and friendship communication purposes. A good example of this
phenomena is the use of MySpace.com (which now has over 70
million youthful members) and Facebook.com.
The careless use of such websites by naive and gullible young
people has been putting hundreds of thousands of such children
and youth in the direct lens of sexual predators from every state
and country.
These realities, threats and dangers call out for parental
intervention, as well as intervention by schools, churches,
community groups, and law enforcement agencies.
One such organization, i-SAFE, (whose work is supported by such
federal government agencies as the U.S. Department of Justice's
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) provides
many concrete actions for parents, schools and communities to
take to protect children from these hazards, as well as
mobilizing youth themselves in this war against Internet
dangers.
On their website, isafe.org, they offer a i-PARENT Toolkit CD on
how best to deal with sexual predators, cyber bullying, cyber-
security and identity theft. In the kit is information about
Internet safety issues, the National i-PARENT Campaign along
with an i-PARENT Toolbox which shows parents how to:
1. Join or create an I-Parent Board
2. Conduct an I-Parent Program or Training
3. Promote Youth Empowerment
4. Adopt a School.
Parents can also get the current issue (as well as back issues)
of i-PARENT Times. This downloadable publication has a variety of
helpful tips, ideas and information that parents can utilize to
learn about what their children are doing online.
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Writer's Resource Box:
Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D. is a nationally and internationally
respected authority on parenting and parent training. He is the
executive director and founder of the Center for the Improvement
of Child Caring in Studio City, CA. The center has a variety of
parenting books, videos and other products available on its Web
site http://www.ciccparenting.org On his blog,
http://www.EducatedParenting.com, Dr. Alvy addresses a variety
of parenting topics, issues, and trends. Dr. Alvy is available
as a consultant, speaker, and media guest. For more information,
go to http://www.DrAlvy.com To sign-up for Dr. Alvy's
free Effective Parenting Newsletter, go to
http://www.ciccparenting.org and click on "Add Me".
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