As a parent, those questions are uppermost in your mind.
Every time your child goes online, he or she may be exposed to very real dangers!
The Internet is the greatest source for information man has ever devised.
But it's also become the most DANGEROUS source for information ever devised!
As a parent, you are rightly concerned about your children.
You try to shield them from the distatesful elements of our society.
You probably monitor who their friends are, where they go, what they do, not because you want to control them, but because you want to be certain no harm comes to them.
BUT WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR ONLINE ACTIVITIES?
Are you as concerned for their well-being ON line as you are OFF line?
Do you MONITOR where they go, and what they do?
Or do you just allow them to "do their own thing" online?
Here are some startling facts we uncovered in a recent search of the Internet**:
- fact #1
There are more than 420,000,000 sites listed as "pornographic" on the Internet!
- fact #2
There are 84,400,000 "sex" sites listed on Google!
- fact #3
There are 92,800,000 "adult" sites listed on Google!
- fact #4
There are 8.500,000 "chat rooms" listed on Google!
(** Search conducted on August 2, 2007)
And that's just Google! Similar numbers can be found on ANY of the major search engines.
Any child or teen-ager with even an elementary knowledge of how to go online can access any of these sites! There are NO "rules" to prevent them from doing so, except a useless check box that says, "I certify I am at least 18 years of age", which is simply there to get around the law.
Do you want your child or teen-ager exposed to this?
Do you want them to have access to more than 420 MILLION SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT, PORNOGRAPHIC, "ADULT" SITES?
They can see homosexuals, lesbians, group sex, violent sex, twisted sex, perverted sex- YOU NAME IT AND IT'S THERE!
Many of these sites also condone violence! Your kids can watch movies where women and girls are beaten, tortured, TIED UP AND RAPED REPEATEDLY, by twisted perverted men!
DO YOU WANT YOUR KIDS EXPOSED TO THAT???
If you aren't MONITORING them, they ARE being exposed!
And what about the chat rooms?
Last year alone, more than 1,000 American kids were lured away by pedophiles lurking in chat rooms, posing as friends. Sadly, many of these kids will never come home.
Most of these kids are between the ages of 13 and 17. Both males and females were seduced by twisted men who arranged a meeting for the purpose of sex, although that's not what they told these kids. After they sexually molested them, many were murdered, their bodies found later.
And in all too many cases, their parents had no idea who they were talking to online!
These statistics should be frightening to ALL of us!
You would think every parent would be paranoid about even letting their kids go online. But they're NOT! Most parents don't give it much thought, until, tragically, it's too late. THEN they come on television and tell us, "Be aware of what your kids are doing online!", after another missing child turns up murdered somewhere.
We don't like these stories any more than you do, but we're being pretty graphic for a reason:
WE WANT TO PROTECT YOUR KIDS!!
Because we're business people, but we're parents, too! aAnd grandparents! The safety of our kids should be uppermost in all of our minds!
WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT?
TakeBackTheInternet.com recommends the following program to help you PROTECT your children:
