1 out of 5 children have been sexually solicited online

1 out of 4 children have been sent a sexually explicit email of naked people
or people having sex

Average age of first Internet exposure to pornography is 11 years old

60% of all websites on the Internet are pornographic websites (about 1.2 billion)

Largest consumer of Internet pornography is the 12-17 age groups

80% of 15-17 year olds have been exposed to hard-core images multiple times

90% of 8-16 year olds have viewed porn online (exposure usually occurred while doing homework)

29% of 7-17 year olds have freely given out their home address

14% of 7-17 year olds have freely given out their email address

When a child enters a chat room, they have a 100% chance of coming in contact with someone who wants to participate in cybersex. The average contact takes 60 seconds. Often it is a predator.

Instant/private messages & chat rooms are the two main tools pedophiles use to contact children on-line.

85% of children admit their parents have no idea what they do online

2-4 weeks is the average time it takes for a child to be lured into a personal contact by someone they met on the Internet

US phone companies estimate 70% of the 500,000 daily calls made to sex services are made by minors who obtain much of their contact information from the Internet

The DOJ says “Never before in the history of telecommunications media in the United States has so much indecent (and obscene) material been so easily accessible by so many minors in so many American homes with so few restrictions.”

The best way to keep your child safe from the perversions of the Internet is to know what your kids are doing online. PC Pandora allows you as a parent to know what your kids are doing so that you can sit down and discuss with them what is appropriate and what is not appropriate for them to be doing online.

You can run the program whenever you wish and see what sites your child visited, the emails they sent and received, their chat room and IM conversations, the programs they ran and everything else they did online.

Keep your children safe with PC Pandora.

 

*These statistics have been derived from a number of different reputable sources including WordTracker, PBS, MSNBC, NRC, and Alexa research.