What Kids Search For When They Search the Web

This is really scary, imagine all these kids going to these porn sites, what they are going to be like when they grow up?

I know many parents will scramble to buy all this endorsed software to stop their children from carlessly walking into all these porn shops so to speak, but you really cannot control it that well because there will always be those parents who do not care, and will let their kids have free reign of the Internet, who in turn will share it with all their friends.

Sounds like parents need to get those conversations really ready at a younger age, and talk about this stuff openly to answer all their questions than learn about the porn people do it though observation. A lot of that stuff is really sick and down right nasty.

There are precious few websites that children should really have a need to be visiting on their own.

The software to protect them is out there, and in some cases arrangements can be made with ISPs to protect children.

I believe it is about time pornography sites were either forced out of .com and onto something of their own, like .xxx.

Any pornography site discovered outside of that format could then be shut down or fined.

Hell, give them their own network! I'm not an expert in the field and never will be, but I imagine the resulting speed increase of .com sites would be beneficial for the entire world, and our chilren would be better protected.

p.s.

Don't get me wrong...I love my porn.

alienproxy, you expressed excellent ideas very thoughfully. Too bad you had to spoil it with the postscript.

SignSeeker: Getting a bit prudish in our majority opinions, are we? You cannot have an unbounded, unassailable, penultimate First Amendment -- read "Professor Gates' inalienable right to speak profanely to an officer of the law" -- and censor nudity, however naked or garrish you might find it. You leaned hard to the left on that last turn. At least feel joy in the world unbridled liberalism hath wrought. I certainly do not.

I find it unbelieveable that our society thinks that it is acceptable for children to be watching pornography. They pornographers are targeting children with cartoon websites so they will grow up and be hooked on it. What do you think our society will become when this next generation grows up stupid? Oh wait, one generation has already seen the effects of porn. Look at the auto industry. GM embraced porn. I rest my case.

The sex and porn searches don't surprise me for this country cause compared to many other countries a lot of parents are scared to talk to their children about sex, puberty, and so on. If you go look at many other countries sex is not a taboo so parents talk about.

So Nathan, are you the father of a 10 year old and would you let her or him watch streaming hard core pornography? Would you encourage your child to have sex before 18? Talking to your child about the idea of sex, is not the same as letting them watch the porn movies on the internet. Parents no longer have control over what their child sees anymore.

I'm having a hard time finding the background on this study to determine if it's a manipulation of statistics to sell a product. What are the ages of children in the study? How do we know Jr hadn't gone to bed and dad started searching "boobs"? It's easy to whip up a lot of scare tactics (just watch the health reform debates).

As the parent of 8 yr old twins, who's online behavior I monitor, I disagree with the assertion "There are precious few websites that children should really have a need to be visiting on their own". Frankly, there are hundreds. Many of them very educational. But it takes parental commitment to sort them out, bookmark them, and frequently check in with their online history.

Accept the fact kids are going to eventually run across unsuitable content. Have that conversation with them before they hear from a school chum to how to find the naughty stuff. If it's an accident, they'll bring it to your attention. If it's intentional, you'll see the guilt in their little eyes... .

There are free services such as OpenDNS that will block any unwanted content, You can filter by category and so on. In addition, you can see what has been blocked and what sites you're family is visiting.

Really, truly, this worry people have is ridiculous. Pornography isn't necessarily beneficial, but the same people that restrict pornography are also heavily overprotective, which means many kids will rebel in another way. I know many kids that don't watch pornography at the later ages, yet have sexual relations with multiple women. Pornography helps with the release of sexual energy for some, but it's really just a phase for most children anyway.

I think that censoring is the wrong approach. Being open about it will give the kids the impression that there's nothing to hide, and they therefore won't be compelled to go looking for streaming hardcore pornography. Let's be honest - unless you're a devout religious person (and I can argue that many release their sexual tension in other ways, not that I have any problems with the religious), you've looked at porn. And chances are, you've enjoyed it.

Teach children that pornography is unnecessary, and that they should be wise in the real world about what they do. But people make mistakes, right? Let them make those mistakes (I'm mainly talking about porn here) if they insist or fight you on it - they'll learn.

P.S. You can't stop peer pressure. Period. I don't care how protective you are. Make the child trust you - that'll mean a lot more to the kid.

First of all ConcernedParent30 I don't have kids and I don't want them either, second don't pull that BS with me cause I didn't do nothing to you. I was talking about the rampant irresponsibility of this country's parents when they neglect to inform their children about puberty, sex and so forth, when you look at some other countries they don't have such a rampant problem. I found out about pornography at a somewhat early age due to a lack of information form my paents about sex, puberty and so on, so I turned to the internet for information. Now don't act like a victim because you're not one, if you don't know how to protect your child then it is your responsibility to learn how to protect them or to ask someone for assistance.

you realize before the internet, kids were still trying their damnedest to see naked people... stealing skin mags from their father... watching Cinemax after midnight... peeping on their neighbors (which is far move depraved than searching "sex" on "the Google") and wow, still, these sex-crazed children wound up growing up, getting married, having children and holding down steady jobs. Calm down. It's called being a child. As long as *you* are being a parent, then there is nothing to worry about.

BAN SEX! Let's see, we ban all sex. Period. No more sex at all. Without sex there would be no children to wonder or investigate about life and each other. (Prude parents not explaining it to them so they have to find out on their own.) No curiosity. No feelings. No people. Cool. Think about how great that would be for the environment. It would stop global warming. No more race relation stupidity. No more starving people who can't feed themselves. No more people polluting the environment. No more children experiencing the excitement of getting something over on their parents by doing something they know they shouldn't be doing. Go figure.

First of all, installing any kind of software on the computer to attempt to block certain content will certainly fail (at least for kids middle school and higher) because they can always get information on disabling the software from their friends. What the parent should do is put openDNS, lock the router, and put a BIOS password on the computer (until the child grows up enough to be mature).

You also have to do your part by talking to your child about these things, what he should be looking at and what he shouldn't and why. This way, the child will be less likely to rebel and go to a friend's house, etc and get the content they want.

All in all, keep the content safe for your child, but don't be too restrictive or else it will backfire and your child will be more likely to rebel against you.

Anyway thats my 2 cents

Thay act exactly like others,what you expect?, so guide them, help them,explain to them the best uses of the enternet, do not do extreme observation

The really scary thing is that any 21st Century person would need to go to their search engine and search for "google"!
Sheesh, how much time, bandwidth and lack of focus goes down the drain every moment as this happens. If we don't know how to get to Google how can we teach or learn about Shakesspeare or maths or global pollution.
Sex isn't scary. Idiocy is.

Wow. It actually bothers me that parents don't think they're children are going to have sex after they're 18. Children are sexual beings as toddlers. Ever wonder why little Billy plays with his little boy parts? Or why little Suzie plays with her girl parts? Not surprisingly it's because if feels good. Why do we as adults have sex? It feels good and on occasion we feel the need to make a baby. Whether you believe it or not, your child is going to have sex. They may do it when they're 30 or do it when they're 13. Who cares? Having sex doesn't mean your child is a slut, or is on their way to Hell. What you do need to care about is when they do decide to do it, make sure that they know about protection, and in the case of girls, ask if they want birth control. Simple education from the Parents, not schools or friends, would go an extremely long way to lessening the teen birth rate in this country.

Oh, and yes, I am a father. I've got a son and twin daughters. And no, I wouldn't want them looking at porn untill they're at least 15, at which time, they'll most likely have already seen it.

Who would have thought it, a survey from a firm selling parental control software reckons kids are constantly looking up porn.

I read another survey some time ago by a far more independent source which concluded porn is only rarely searched by kids online and even then mainly by older ones (15/16).

Just because some kid does it once or twice doesn't mean that's what they do everytime they are online. Of course, if you've got something to sell you're going to warp the statistics in your favor.

freaky kids these days...scary