Protecting Kids From Internet Predators: Recent Stats
According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) a staggering 1 in 5 kids who are online at least once a month, be it at home, school, or at a friend's house, are approached sexually by an Internet predator.
Even worse, 1 in 33 is aggressively approached meaning the predator tried to arrange some kind of offline contact (often referred to as IRL, short for "in real life") with that child.
Disturbing indeed, and what can parents do in today's information age? Kids have access to computers just about everywhere, and internet pedophiles spend hours a day trying to contact children via chat rooms, web sites, instant messages, etc. In their lingo this is disturbingly referred to as, "grooming."
Aside from talking to your kids about the dangers of the internet, parents simply must assert control over internet access in their own home with the use of some sort of parental control software.
Even worse, 1 in 33 is aggressively approached meaning the predator tried to arrange some kind of offline contact (often referred to as IRL, short for "in real life") with that child.
Disturbing indeed, and what can parents do in today's information age? Kids have access to computers just about everywhere, and internet pedophiles spend hours a day trying to contact children via chat rooms, web sites, instant messages, etc. In their lingo this is disturbingly referred to as, "grooming."
Aside from talking to your kids about the dangers of the internet, parents simply must assert control over internet access in their own home with the use of some sort of parental control software.
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