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Below are a collection of statistics that were found at ProtectKids.com:
The average age of first exposure to Internet porn is 11 (Family Safe Media, December 15, 2005,
The largest group of viewers of Internet porn is children between ages 12 and 17 (Family Safe Media, December 15, 2005, ).
Half of teens ages 13-18 often communicate through the Internet with someone they have not met in person (Internet Safety: Realistic Strategies & Messages for Kids Taking More and More Risks Online. December 21, 2005. Polly Klaas Foundation. February 17, 2006 < http://www.pollyklaas.org/internet-safety/pkfsummary.pdf>).
One-third of youth ages 8-18 have talked about meeting someone they have only met through the Internet (Internet Safety: Realistic Strategies & Messages for Kids Taking More and More Risks Online. December 21, 2005. Polly Klaas Foundation. February 17, 2006 < http://www.pollyklaas.org/internet-safety/pkfsummary.pdf>).
Almost one in eight youth ages 8-18 discovered that someone they were communicating with online was an adult pretending to be much younger (Internet Safety: Realistic Strategies & Messages for Kids Taking More and More Risks Online. December 21, 2005. Polly Klaas Foundation. February 17, 2006 ).
The entire study is online at: http://www.pollyklaas.org/internet-safety/pkfsummary.pdf(Polly Klaas Foundation, 2005)
"30% of teenage girls polled by the Girl Scout Research Institute said they had been sexually harassed in a chatroom. Only 7%, however, told their mothers or fathers about the harassment because they were worried that their parents would ban them from going online" (Girl Scout Research Institute, 2002).
"86% of the girls polled said they could chat online without their parents' knowledge, 57% could read their parents' e-mail, and 54% could conduct a cyber relationship" (Girl Scout Research Institute, 2002).
81% of parents of online teens say that teens aren't careful enough when giving out information about themselves online and 79% of online teens agree with this (Family, Friends & Community: Protecting Teens Online, Amanda Lenhart, March 17, 2005, Pew Internet & American Life Project, December 12, 2005 ).
65% of all parents and 64% of all teens say that teens do things online that they wouldn't want their parents to know about (Family, Friends & Community: Protecting Teens Online, Amanda Lenhart, March 17, 2005, Pew Internet & American Life Project, December 12, 2005 ).
42% of parents do not review the content of what their teenager(s) read and/or type in chat rooms or via instant messaging. 58% do (Parents' Internet Monitoring Study. June 2005. Cox Communications, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and NetSmartz. December 14, 2005 < http://www.cox.com/TakeCharge/includes/docs/results.pdf>).
Teenagers use chat lingo to communicate when Instant Messaging and parents don't know the meanings of some of the most commonly used phrases. 57% don't know LOL (laughing out loud), 68% don't know BRB (be right back), and 92% don't know A/S/L (age/sex/location) (Parents' Internet Monitoring Study. June 2005. Cox Communications, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and NetSmartz. December 14, 2005 < http://www.cox.com/TakeCharge/includes/docs/results.pdf>).
95% of parents didn't recognize common chat room lingo that teenagers use to let people they're chatting with know that their parents are watching. Those phrases are POS (parent over shoulder) and P911 (parent alert) (Parents' Internet Monitoring Study. June 2005. Cox Communications, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and NetSmartz. December 14, 2005 < http://www.cox.com/TakeCharge/includes/docs/results.pdf>).
In 26% of cases where youth accidentally stumbled into pornographic websites, the youth stated being exposed to another sex website when they were attempting to exit the initial website (Mitchell, K.J., Finkelhor, and D., Wolak, J. "The Exposure of Youth to Unwanted Sexual Material on the Internet: A National Survey of Risk, Impact, and Prevention". Youth & Society, 34 (2003): 330-358).
23% of youth were "very" or "extremely upset" by exposures to sexual content online (Mitchell, K.J., Finkelhor, D., and Wolak, J. "Victimization of Youths on the Internet." The Victimization of Children: Emerging Issues. Ed. J.L. Mullings, J.W. Marquart, and D.J. Hartley. New York: Haworth Maltreatment &Trauma Press, 2003).
Adolescents' access to sexual and reproductive health information is minimally affected by pornography-blocking software. For example, only 5% of online health information was filtered out by pornography-blocking software when installed at moderate settings while blocking 90% of pornographic content (Richardson, C.R., Resnick, P.J., Hansen, D.L., Derry, H.A., & Rideout, V.J. "Does pornography-blocking software block access to health information on the Internet?" Journal of the American Medical Association, 288(22), (2002): 2887-2894).
23% of parents have rules about what their kids can do on the computer (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study, March 2005).
25% of 7th- to 12th-graders with a computer at home say it has a filter or parental controls on it (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study, March 2005).
31% of 7th- to 12th-graders pretended to be older to get onto a website (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study, March 2005).
The Kaiser Family Foundation found that among teens online, 70 percent have accidentally come across pornography on the Web (Kaiser Family Foundation).
The entire study is online at [ http://www.kff.org/content/2001/20011211a/GenerationRx.pdf ]http://www.kff.org/content/2001/20011211a/GenerationRx.pdf(The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2001)
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