Children put at risk online: Parents facing a huge challenge

Today’s parents are the first to have to consider the prospect that their children might spend more time with strangers online than they are spending with them. Those same parents, more than likely already feeling guilty that the obligations of sustaining a family make time with that family almost a novelty, have been warned that it is “incredibly important” they know who their children are speaking to online.

Even if that seems advice from the Ladybird Book of Parenting, it is all too relevant, as research established that a fifth of children aged between 8 and 10 and a quarter of 12- year-olds are talking to strangers online every day.