More statistics on youth and Internet pornography

• 23% of parents have rules about what their kids can do on the computer (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study, March 2005)
• In a typical day, just over half (54%) of all young people use a computer for recreation. (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study, March 2005)
• Nearly one-third (31%) of 8- to 18-year-olds have a computer in their bedroom, and one in five (20%) have an Internet connection there. (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study, March 2005)
• About half of young people (48%) go online from home, 20% from school, and 16% from someplace else. (The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Study, March 2005)
• Among the 96% of young people who have ever gone online, 65% say they go online most often from home, 14% from school, 7% from a friend’s house, and 2% from a library or other location. (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)
• A study by the NOP Research Group found that of the four million children aged seven to 17 who surf the net, 29% percent would freely give out their home address and 14% would freely give out their e-mail address if asked. (Telegraph.co.uk January 2002)
• Nine out of 10 children aged between eight and 16 have viewed pornography on the Internet. In most cases, the sex sites were accessed unintentionally when a child, often in the process of doing homework, used a seemingly innocent sounding word to search for information or pictures. (London School of Economics January 2002)
• Among the 95% of all 15-17 year-olds who have ever gone online:
  • Seventy percent have accidentally stumbled across pornography online, 23% "very" or "somewhat" often.
  • A majority (55%) of those who were exposed to pornography say they were "not too" or "not at all" upset by it, while 45% were "very" or "somewhat" upset.