It's EASY for Kids to View Porn

I always assumed that you had to have a credit card number to access porn online. Apparently I was wrong. I read an article reporting a study suggesting that the largest consumers of Internet porn are 12-17 year olds and that children as young as 11 are being exposes to porn. To read the article click here.

In some of my previous blogs I discussed online predators and how they are likely to be sending kids porn. This is very true, but the most common way for kids to receive this material is from other kids. I know that AOL, earthlink and other ISPs come with blocking software, which filter images and blocks e-mails. However, it seems that these programs don't block all chat rooms, or any blogs or P2P (peer-to-peer) web sites. These are traps that parents need to be aware of. For definitions and info on P2P sites click here and on blogs click here.

Until next time...