Parenting 20 years ago did not bring the same challenges that we face today. In the early days of dial-up the only access to internet pornography was through dial-in usenet groups or bulletin boards. Pornography was easier to obtain at your local 7-11 than on your computer. With the explosive growth of the World Wide Web in the 1990s, that all changed. Pornography can now be accessed on every internet-enabled device from your home computer to your smartphone, internet-enabled video gaming consoles (Wii, xBox 360, PS3), to your child’s iPod Touch, PSP (Playstation Portable), and more. With WIFI access available everywhere you turn, how do you protect your family when no one is watching? Pornography Statistics 2000: 60% of websites visited on the Internet were sexual in nature.1 2001: The Online Computer Library Center’s annual review found 74,000 adult websites accounting for 2% of sites on the net, and together they brought in profits of more than $1 billion; many were small scale, with half making $20,000 a year.1 2002: The two largest individual buyers of bandwidth were U.S. firms in the adult online industry.1 2003: The N2H2 database contained 260 million adult Web pages. This represented an almost 20-fold increase

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