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Protecting Children From Pornography
The following suggestions may help you to protect your children from the dangers of pornography on the Internet.
- Do not allow your child to access the Internet from his bedroom. Locate any connected computers in a room that is easily accessible to all family members.
- Get to know the computer services your child uses.
- Check whether your child has created his own Web site without your knowledge. To do this, try looking for his name on search engines that scour the entire Internet. Enter his full name in quotes to avoid false hits.
- Do not allow your child to arrange a face-to-face meeting with another computer user who is unknown to you.—See "More Than Idle Chatter."
- Never respond to messages or bulletin board items that are suggestive, obscene, belligerent, or threatening.
- Warn your children about accessing inappropriate materials on the Internet. Teach them to act as their own censor when you are not around. Remember that computers at school or in the home of a friend may not be childproofed against pornography.
Material based, in part, on Child Safety on the Information Highway and an article in the Los Angeles Times, July 5, 1999.
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