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How safe are your kids online?

• One in five U.S. teenagers who regularly log on to the Internet say they have received an unwanted sexual solicitation via the Web. Solicitations were defined as requests to engage in sexual activities or sexual talk, or to give personal sexual information.
- Crimes Against Children Research Center

• 25% of children have been exposed to unwanted pornographic material online.
- Crimes Against Children Research Center
• Only 1/3 of households with Internet access are actively protecting their children with filtering or blocking software.
- Center for Missing and Exploited Children

• 75% of children are willing to share personal information online about themselves and their family in exchange for goods and services.
- eMarketer

• Only approximately 25% of children who encountered a sexual approach or solicitation told a parent or adult.
- Crimes Against Children Research Center

• One in 33 youth received an aggressive sexual solicitation in the past year. This means a predator asked a young person to meet somewhere, called a young person on the phone, and/or sent the young person correspondence, money, or gifts through the U.S. Postal Service.
- Your Internet Safety Survey

• 77% of the targets for online predators were age 14 or older. Another 22% were users ages 10 to 13.
- Crimes Against Children Research Center

• In 2007, 13-year-old Megan Meier killed herself hours after she learned that an online boyfriend on MySpace
had been created by an adult as a hoax. Meier learned the boy was fictitious after she received numerous cruel messages from peers and others who were in on the hoax.

Find out Thurs how you can keep your child safe. http://budurl.com/Predator