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Peer Predators Online
Comments 0 | Recommend 0January 14, 2009 11:06 AM
While it is always important to teach your kids to protect themselves on line, New research from Harvard indicates that adult internet predators are not as big a threat as previously thought. The research says 13 percent of children receive sexual solicitations on line, but very few are from adults over the age of 21. The results indicate that parents should not only explain the dangers of adult predators, but also peer predators.
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