More than nine in ten (95 percent) of parents are aware their children have accessed pornography on the web, usually during homework time, says BitDefender.

A survey of 1,570 parents by the security firm revealed the average age of a child to start using the internet to search for adult content is 11 years, and 97 percent of the parents surveyed said they had installed parental controls software on a PC the child uses. However, 12 percent admitted their child has successfully uninstalled or unlocked the software.

Furthermore, nearly two thirds (62 percent) of adults admitted they had searched for and accessed adult content on the web themselves, while 87 percent said they would allow those over 19 to surf the web for sexual content. Read more…