|
|
| By: israelinsider staff and partners |
| Published: February 1, 2007 |
| |
A new study conducted by Professor Dafna Lemish of the Tel Aviv University Department of Communications and Dr. Rivka Ribak of the correlating department in Haifa University investigates what youths do online. Over the course of the spring-summer seasons of 2006 researchers conducted personal interviews with 532 youths, aged 9-18, who were each asked 190 questions pertaining to their internet habits. 90 additional questions were directed at one parent of each child. The children polled are a representative sampling of Israel's youth, but did not include youths from the ultra-Orthodox public.
Sixty percent of those polled said they had viewed pornographic material online. Of this figure only 19 percent said they had sought out the material intentionally (primarily boys). Their parents on the other hand had a slightly more naive view of their children -- only 16 percent said they believed their children had accessed adult websites.
Alarmingly, 24 percent of the youths said that they had a face-to-face meeting with a stranger they met online. Only 10 percent of the parents -- less than half -- said that their child had met with an online acquaintance. 40 percent of the youths reported having given out personal information online, only 4 percent of parents said the same of their children.
Sixty-two percent said their parents were clueless about their internet activities, 17 percent said that their parents tried to peek at the computer screen while they were surfing, and 27 percent said that their parents surf together with them.
Read the rest. |
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Click on the blue headline to read a Talkback comment and respond to it. Click on the  icon to send a private email to the talkback writer. The icon appears only if the writer has decided to be contacted. If no popup window appears, please make sure your popup blocker allows israelinsider.com.
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
