Children meeting strangers online parents’ main fear
The research, carried out by the Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland and Hotline.ie found that parents now fear their children being in direct contact with dangerous people online far more than they fear them watching pornography.
Similar research carried out in 2001, for the Government’s Internet Advisory Board, found access to porn as the top concern of parents. However, this latest research has discovered that, not only has pornography dropped to second place, but the percentage of parents citing it as their first concern has dropped by over half — from 44% of parents in 2001 to just 20% this year.
