40% of parents fear kids will visit bad Web sites

Article title: 40% of parents fear kids will visit bad Web sites

Source: The Daily Yomiuri

Published: Sunday, July 8, 2007

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40 percent of parents worry about their children accessing Web sites contain violent or sexual content. What most worried the parents about their children’s use of the Internet is accessing harmful Web sites. And they also worry about children becoming involved in crimes. Only 23.7 percent of parents know the existence of filtering services to block harmful sites. Moreover, 7.3 percent actually filtered content. In fact, the reason why children (middle and high school students) use the Internet is to browse homepages and blogs. So, it is important to promote measures to keep children from browsing harmful sites.