Research from ConsumerChoices.co.uk has revealed that 84% of parents polled across the UK said that they rate verbal agreement with their children on safe Internet usage as their primary means of monitoring online activity.

Meanwhile recent government research estimated that one in four children have put themselves in potential danger by secretly meeting strangers they had contacted online:


Thankfully the study also suggests several ways in which you can better protect your offspring. Installing parental control software, education, moving the family PC into a living room, using anti-virus/firewall software and monitoring downloads are all proposed.