I was browsing through CNN.com, reading updates on the Haiti incident, when I came across this article, which read, “Young kids searching web for ‘porn’” In the article, it was reported that “[a]ccording to Symantec, the fourth most popular search term for children 7 and under is ‘porn,’” next to Youtube, Google and Facebok. “Symantec recently released the anonymous results of 14.7 million searches run by users of its OnlineFamily.Norton service in 2009.” It was surprising to note that “children as young as 7 were familiar with ‘porn’.”
Having read the article made me remember a newly accepted case by our Team in OLA which involved a 6-year old girl, who was allegedly raped. By an 8-year old boy, who was the 6-year old girl’s neighbor and playmate. The mother-applicant even showed the shorts of the girl, which was full of blood.
There may be no connection between the two facts just above. The article above involves children who are mostly – if not, all – non-Filipinos, while the OLA case involves two Filipino children. Nonetheless, it certainly raises legitimate concerns about the effect and influence of the Internet to young kids today.
How could the 8-year old boy have known how to do such act? Where could he have gotten the slightest idea of sex? Was it through a magazine? Or through a VCD or DVD just lying around the house? Or from the Internet?
Whether the Internet had actually some influence on the boy’s act toward the girl is at most speculative at this point. In fact, it is even immaterial if you ask me. My point is, there is a real concern to protect the children and monitor them from the overwhelming information on the web. While the Internet may be considered as primarily an educational and developmental tool for children, parents and guardians, must, of necessity, also closely guide and monitor the activities of these children on the Internet, especially in their tender years, to protect them from sensitive information like sex or porn.
Source:
http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/
Reody Anthony M. Balisi
7th Entry
2 comments:
naku. i guess more information out there in the open really has its ups and downs. my policy in this is that people should know what their kids are viewing. dati, super strict ng parents ko overnight pa lang. and know, kids these days demand a lot - cellphone, email, facebook accounts. hay, basta ako, teach the kids some basic values. let him pave his own path. pero, to be sure, bibigay ko sa kids ko yung cellphone etc pag grade 6 na siya. :)
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