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Keeping Kids Safe On Cellphones
Forbes
For tweens and teens, cellphones are the perfect tool for being constantly
connected to the outside world. Texting use has skyrocketed...read more...
Teens Texting
The Pew Internet and American Life Project
Text messaging has become the primary way that teens reach their friends, surpassing face-to-face contact, email, instant messaging and voice calling as the go-to daily communication tool for this age group ...read more...
Teens, Texting, and Social Isolation
The Pew Internet and American Life Project
Second, Pew Internet data shows that face-to-face interaction is holding
relatively steady. In 2006, 31% reported daily face-to-face interaction
with their...read more...
Sexual Predator Bills Head to House Floor for Full Votes
The Jacksonville Observer
Following emotional testimony, a House panel on Tuesday approved a pair of
bills backers say will better protect children from sexual predators and
give ... read more...
Hey, Kids: To Cops, Sexting and Child Porn Are the Same
True/Slant
Teens also might need to be reminded of the youngsters who have killed
themselves over cyber-bullying incidents over the last few years...
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Internet Safety 101: Protecting Your Kids
Christian Broadcasting Network
But a new safety program designed just for mom and dad could help.
"Internet Safety 101" includes a DVD teaching series and other resources
put together by ... read more...
Sex Offender Allowed to Live Near School
NYTimes.com
James F. Donnelly, a convicted sex offender, is living in the house on the right, across from Wildwood Elementary School
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Chelsea King and a California Sex Offender
blogs.abcnews.com
Police believe a convicted sex offender arrested in the disappearance of San Diego high school student Chelsea King raped and
murdered the girlread more...
New Software Aims to Keep Facebook Safer
Wall Street Journal (blog) - By Jennifer Valentino
As social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter have
expanded to include more of the online population, spammers and hackers
have come ...read more...
PARENTING WEEK: BULLYING
Book of Odds
... in the classroom, after school, and, increasingly, through their cell
phones and on the Internet, a rising phenomenon called cyberbullying. ...
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Parents Need to Talk to Kids About Internet Use, Experts Say...
IDG News Service
Internet safety experts urge parents to talk to their kids about online safety read more...
Anthony Sowell and Philip Garrido Cases Raise Questions About Sex Offenders ...
ABC News
Both Philip Garrido and Anthony Sowell duped officers doing routine house checks that nothing criminal was occurring in their home...read more...
Parents, police monitoring kids' cell phones ?
CNN.com
Colorado officer uses cell-phone monitoring software to catch Sexual Predators ....
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Does your social class determine your online social network?
CNN.com
These social-networking divides are worrisome...with those who share our income level, education, or racial background...read more...
Philip Garrido, the alleged kidnapper of Jaycee Lee Dugard, was a "monster" according to a Las Vegas casino girl who he raped ...
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The Helicopter Parents Are Hovering on Facebook
Wall Street Journal
In the new era of helicopter parenting, more and more parents and kids are
meeting up, and clashing, on Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking
sites. ...read more...
Back to School Online Safety Tips
Groesbeck Journal
Keep Checking your children's Internet activity. Know where they go
online. Let them know that you'll keep checking because you want them to
understand ... read more...
Can parents learn anything from the Jaycee Dugard story?
San Francisco Chronicle
What's more, Dugard was the victim of a sexual predator ... read more...
Predators Use Internet Gaming To Reach Victims
WFMY News 2
Greensboro, NC -- On-line predators may be using internet video gaming as
the latest path to their victims. According to child safety advocates - -
one in ...read more...
More than half of all 12-year-olds have Cell Phones
Tampa Tribune
Verizon sells certain Parental Control Services for $4.99 per month,
and a "Chaperone" locator service for $9.99 that also sends alerts when
kids enter or ...read more...
Online Spying is an aid to Parents
Vancouver Sun
While sounds about as appealing to the average teen as taking your mom
along when you hang out with your friends, Doctor sees it as simply part of
the ...read more...
Man gets 5 years for Child Porn
Yakima Herald-Republic
The case started in April when the Northwest Regional Internet Crimes
Against Children Task Force received information that child pornography had
been ...
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Kids' top searches include 'Porn'
BBC News
In a statement Symantec's internet safety advocate, Marian Merritt, said
that with the service, "parents can stay in the loop on what their kids are
doing ... read more...
Security 101: Staying safe in your own home
Examiner.com
Visit them on the Internet at HomeSafetyCouncil.org. You can follow the
Internet Safety 101 series and learn how to protect your child online...
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Back to school: educating students on School Bullying
Examiner.com
In the current age of technology, children are subjected to cyber bullying,
harassing phone calls, emails and text messages. A bully with a cell phone
and ... read more...
Electronics use is affecting teen bedtimes, learning capabilities
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com
With cell phones and other forms of handheld entertainment, it is easy for
kids to push back bedtime with a late-night chat or gaming session. ...
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Online stalking helps rise in reported rapes
CharlotteObserver.com
Rape is the only major crime category up this year, according to CMPD
statistics. Through July, there were 26 more rapes reported to police (185)
than last ...read more...
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Teens, Kids and Cell Phone Safety
By Sue Scheff
Purchase a cell phone that doesn't provide access to the internet. In all
likelihood, your child already has a computer at home or school with
internet access. It isn't necessary for them to have the internet on the
cell phone also. ...read more...
Divulge Lightly On Social Networking Sites, Experts Say
Omaha, NE
A recent study conducted at the University of Massachusetts found that 21
percent of colleges use social networking sites to gather information on
their ...
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What Parents Need to Know
San Saba,TX
A recent survey indicates that 6 percent of teens who use social networking
sites say someone has posted an embarrassing picture of them online without
... read more...
Texting has become the preferred means of communication for teens
Hendersonville, NC
After breathing, texting undoubtedly tops the list of
critical needs in the minds of millions of teens... read more...
Police say man used MySpace to lure, molest teen
Boston Herald - United States
Gwinnett County authorities have charged a 26-year-old man with using the
social networking site MySpace to lure a teenager to a vacant
home and ...
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Police: Molester posed as teen girl on MySpace
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
The boy said he met a girl on the social networking site who promised sex
if he would allow ...
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Time on Social Networks almost doubles in a year
Reuters - USA
Spending more time on social networks and blogs?...
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The iPhone's Next Frontier: Porn
Leading porn purveyors see the iPhone as a dream come true...
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Facebook isn't just for Teens, Parents are now it's fastest ...
Houston, Texas
It's the most popular social networking site in the world. Millions of
teenagers are on Facebook and now so are mom and dad. ...
read more...
New Survey: Sexting Happens among Pre-Teens, Too
Rodale News
The most recent Sexting survey found that among the 300 girls ...
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Study Shows Large Increase in Internet Predator Arrests
Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire
A new study finds dramatic growth nationwide in arrests of online predators...read more...
Exposed: Teens take to 'Sexting'
Fairfax Digital
Though youth is fleeting, images sent on a mobile phone or posted online may...read more...
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