Just For Parents

We are very concerned about your child and where they go on the Internet. That is why we do not have paid banner ads on our site. Even though this would help pay for some of the expenses for our web site, we refuse to let your child click on anything that would lead them away from our protected site. Sometimes your child is only two clicks away from pornography or some other distasteful visual that they don’t need to see.

Here are some facts you may not know.
• The average age of first exposure to Internet pornography is 11 years old.
• 90% of children, ages 8 to 16 have been exposed to online pornography.
• There is a lot of porn on the internet, approximately 420 million web pages are online currently.
• 87% of all teens are online.
• Americans aged 13 to 18 spend more than 72 hours a week using electronic media, defined as the Internet, cell phones, television, music and video games.

Other facts that are astounding:
• 61% of teens have a profile on a social networking sight and ½ of those have posted pictures of themselves.
• 20 million youth are on myspace.com
• 15 million are on facebook.com
4.5 million children post content online everyday

The scariest parts:
• 34% of young people had an unwanted exposure to sexual material online such as pictures of naked people or people having sex.
• only 27% of the youth who encountered unwanted sexual material told a parent or guardian, and if the encounter was extremely distressing only 42% told a parent.
• one in seven young people (10-17 year-olds) received a sexual solicitation or approach over the internet.
• 4% received an aggressive solicitation – a solicitor who asked to meet them somewhere; called them on the telephone; or sent them offline mail, money or gifts.
• 48% of 16-17 year olds said their parents know ‘very little’ or ‘nothing’ about what they do on the internet.

Terre Ritchie
Executive Director of CBH

This material was collected from a report brought to us by the XXXchurch.com website.