{"id":171385,"date":"2017-08-25T13:02:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/?p=171385"},"modified":"2017-08-25T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T13:06:26","slug":"children-do-in-fact-meet-with-online-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/children-do-in-fact-meet-with-online-strangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Children do in fact meet with online strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In a recent survey it was found that more children meet with strangers that they got to know online than not. A staggering 53% of them being 15-17 years old, and 57.4% boys.<\/p>\n

To investigate the factors that protect and make children vulnerable online, the study explored the role of parents, teachers and friends. Nearly one in two (48.1%) child participants said that they never or hardly ever spoke to their parents about their internet use and 60.5% were never or hardly ever encouraged by their parents to explore and learn new things online. According to their children, 42.0% of parents never suggested ways for their children to use the internet safely and 49.1% never spoke to their children about what do if something online bothered or upset them. Parents scored themselves even worse on their mediation, with 57.0% of parents (compared to 42.0% of children) saying that they had never suggested ways to use the internet safely. However, parents did show a deep concern for their children\u2019s online wellbeing in the focus group discussions, but this did not necessarily translate into tangible mediation practices. Only one in two (53.2%) parents reported having ever had any guidance on how to support and mediate their children\u2019s internet use.<\/p>\n

This presents a crisis situation. Schools, teachers, parents, and the government need to work together on this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent survey it was found that more children meet with strangers that they got to know online than not. A staggering 53% of them being 15-17 years old, and 57.4% boys. To investigate the factors that protect and make children vulnerable online, the study explored the role of parents, teachers and friends. Nearly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":171389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171388,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171385\/revisions\/171388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joblife.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}