Protect
your Children with an Internet Filter
Today's
responsible parents are using internet filtering software
to protect their children from predators on the internet.
Responsible parents want to know and monitor what their children
are doing online, safeguard their privacy, stop pornography
and other objectionable material from coming into their home,
and limit their children's online
activities.
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Children
and teenagers use computers and the internet more than
any other age group.
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Ninety percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17
(or 48 million) now use computers.
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Seventy-five
percent of 14-17 year olds and 65 percent of 10-13 year
olds use the internet.
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Family
households with children under the age of 18 are more
likely to access the internet (62%) than family households
with no children (53%), and non-family households (35
%).
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Source:
A NATION ONLINE: How Americans Are Expanding Their Use
of the Internet, February 2005 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
Here
at ParentalGuidance.org, we take these studies
seriously, and we are concerned by other recent studies that
show many parents are still content to let their children
roam the internet unsupervised. When we ask, "Would
you be willing to let your kids watch X-Rated movies?"
They of course say no, but yet that is exactly the danger
they are exposing their children to in the "Wild West"
known as the internet, when they don't use an internet filter.
The
major film studios, television networks, and record labels
have been forced by Federal legislation to restrict minors'
access to adult material. However, no such legislation has
been passed covering the internet. We fully support
the unrestricted right of any adult of legal age to view any
legal content they so desire. But our children need to be
supervised and restricted from either accidentally stumbling
into an adults-only area on the internet, or being lured there
by a predator.
Childrens'
safety is our number one concern here at ParentalGuidance.org.
We have created this website to address the area of Internet
Filtering Software to help parents make wise
choices when it comes to protecting their children.
We
are constantly discovering and evaluating new internet filter
software, and we encourage you to add your voice by emailing
us with your comments and suggestions, or to point out new
software that you may have discovered if you wish for us to
review it here.
We
do not intend for this list to be seen as a comprehensive
list of all available internet filtering software. This is
the list of the best internet filtering software,
in our judgment.
If
you've read this far you have already proven yourself to be
a concerned parent, and a concerned parent these days is the
very best kind of parent. We hope you find the best internet
filtering software that suits your needs from our list, and
that it helps strengthen your relationship with your children,
and contributes to your family's continued enjoyment of the
internet.
Here
are the best software programs we've found for restricting
kids' access to adult internet sites: |
