January 11, 2016 at 20:19Study: Parents of American teens vigilantly monitor their children's online lives
Research company Pew Research has published its study on how parents of American teenagers control their behavior on the Internet. The essence of the questions boiled down to exactly how the parents check what their child is doing on the Internet and what it leads to in real life - is punishment and restriction of Internet access following misconduct? The study involved parents of adolescents whose age ranges from 13 to 17 years.
It turned out that more than 60% of parents check which sites the child visits and monitor their activity on social networks. Since many young people are already inclined to easily share information about themselves on Facebook and hardly delete the browsing history behind them, such a sufficiently large percentage of parents is hardly significant for the stated purpose.
On the other hand, almost half of the respondents (48%) said that they know the password for their child’s email account, 43% know the password for their smartphone and about 35% know the password for at least one social network profile, without specifying how they were received. At the same time, the percentage of parents (39%), comparable with the announced percentage, uses special software to monitor the child’s activity on the Internet, and approximately 16% track his location using a smartphone.
This control is likely to bear fruit, as more than half of parents practice punishment for their children, which consists in restricting their access to the Internet, up to the point that gadgets are taken from them. So do 65% of parents. A little less - 55% - just limit the time during which the child can use the Internet.
Quite a lot of parents understand the importance of explaining to a child what they can do on the Internet and what not. For example, at least 90% of parents at least once discussed the question of exactly which video on the Internet is suitable for viewing, and only 4% of parents are completely indifferent to this. About the same percentage of adults also told their children that shopping on the Internet should be treated with a great deal of responsibility. In general, most parents prefer to discuss with their children the possible problems associated with activity on the Internet.
It turned out that more than 60% of parents check which sites the child visits and monitor their activity on social networks. Since many young people are already inclined to easily share information about themselves on Facebook and hardly delete the browsing history behind them, such a sufficiently large percentage of parents is hardly significant for the stated purpose.
On the other hand, almost half of the respondents (48%) said that they know the password for their child’s email account, 43% know the password for their smartphone and about 35% know the password for at least one social network profile, without specifying how they were received. At the same time, the percentage of parents (39%), comparable with the announced percentage, uses special software to monitor the child’s activity on the Internet, and approximately 16% track his location using a smartphone.
This control is likely to bear fruit, as more than half of parents practice punishment for their children, which consists in restricting their access to the Internet, up to the point that gadgets are taken from them. So do 65% of parents. A little less - 55% - just limit the time during which the child can use the Internet.
Quite a lot of parents understand the importance of explaining to a child what they can do on the Internet and what not. For example, at least 90% of parents at least once discussed the question of exactly which video on the Internet is suitable for viewing, and only 4% of parents are completely indifferent to this. About the same percentage of adults also told their children that shopping on the Internet should be treated with a great deal of responsibility. In general, most parents prefer to discuss with their children the possible problems associated with activity on the Internet.