| Never has it been more critical than right | | | | |
| now to protect children from the online | | | | · Marriages and families are being |
| perils of pornography. According to USA | | | | destroyed due to husbands and wives becoming |
| Today there are over 1000 new pornographic | | | | addicted to online pornography. |
| websites each day. Over 30% of all the | | | | |
| websites online have some form of | | | | Online pornographers are targeting your |
| inappropriate content. It has been estimated | | | | children. Over half of the children using |
| that approximately 1 in 3 girls and 1 in 7 | | | | the Internet receive an invitation from |
| boys will be sexually molested before the age | | | | pornographers to visit a pornographic web |
| of 18. The relationship of pornography to | | | | site right on the computer in your home. |
| child sexual abuse is compelling. 77% of | | | | |
| those who molested boys and 87% of those who | | | | Face it; the Internet can be a particularly |
| molested girls said they were regular users | | | | dangerous place for children if they should |
| of hard-core pornography. | | | | surf it unmonitored. Who has the time to |
| | | | monitor your kids 24 hours a day? If you are |
| For most families, being on the Internet is | | | | looking to create a safe web environment for |
| as commonplace as being on the telephone. | | | | your children, you may want to consider |
| While most parents feel that it is not | | | | investing some money in an Internet filter. |
| necessary to monitor their children online, | | | | An Internet filter is basically a simple to |
| this is a very big mistake. Some, but not | | | | install software application designed to |
| all, of the problems for families associated | | | | prevent access to websites that you do not |
| with online pornography are as follows: | | | | want your children to visit. |
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| · Children innocently typing in incorrect | | | | A few years ago there were a lot of dial up |
| URL's and accessing porn sites by mistake | | | | Internet service providers that offered |
| possibly causing trauma to the child. | | | | filtered Internet access. Many of these |
| | | | companies are still around. With the prices |
| · Cookies being placed in browsers by | | | | and availability of broadband Internet, most |
| porn sites thereby allowing them to track | | | | of us have moved away from dialup. The |
| your children and send them pornographic | | | | problems of unfiltered Internet access remain |
| emails. | | | | the same, but the availabilities of Internet |
| | | | filtering are worse. |
| · Curious children seeking porn sites | | | | |
| (and they will) potentially opening | | | | There are a handful of good stand-alone |
| themselves up to developing an addiction to | | | | Internet content filters that are available |
| online pornography. | | | | for high speed Internet access. Most of |
| | | | these filters are customizable to your |
| · Porn seeking children using their | | | | families needs and are very affordable. As |
| parent's credit cards to accumulate, in many | | | | you have moved into the high speed Internet |
| known cases, hundreds of dollars of charges | | | | world, have for forgotten to protect your |
| for viewing online pornography. | | | | kids? |