Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 21, 2001, Winnipeg, Manitoba Win ii in i Phi Iii Al 2001 local a kids dont Tell mom or dad what there doing online anew Survey on internet use by Canadian students proves that Many parents have no idea what their children Are doing in almost half the students questioned in the govern men funded Survey admitted they have e mail accounts they keep hidden from their the fresh from their failure to secure passage of an omnibus Bill that would have included keeping kids Safe from online have provided More evidence that Many children Are wandering the untamed Frontier of the internet without necessary supervision or the results of the Cross coun try to be released in Ottawa this Point to an increasing Gap Between what parents think their children Are doing on the Home computer and what is actually the aged six to revealed that Many parents Are fooling them seven in 10 kids say they dont talk much to their parents about what they do said Paul senior advisor on Industry Canadas internet Content the comparative data for parents is almost eight in 10 parents say they do in fact talk to their theres obviously room for the conducted in March in schools across the had students answering 100 questions on an Anonymous question nine per cent of Manitoba schools participated in the the Federal government conducted a Simi Lar Survey of parents in asking questions about the perceived usage of the internet by lining the two studies up next to each other reveals significant Dis parents say they Are supervising their Chil Pierlot when in fact they Are sometimes simply walking past the computer we found a lot of Good parenting syn said they knew what they were supposed to be it seems parents were a Little they thought supervising meant keeping the line free so they could get phone the Good news in this mix is that Manitoba is seen As a Leader in promoting the online Protection of a senior level Federal steering committee on internet which held its first meeting boasts two Winni Eggers As child find Manitoba executive director Lianna Mcdon Ald and assistant attorney general Rob Fin Layson both sit on the who is pleased there will be new Federal provincial says the results confirm what was already parents need to be its a makeup said co chair of Manitoba child online Protection there have been a number of makeup alarms raised by parents and Law enforcement officials across the solid action has been near impossible with a Lack of Federal we promote aggressive Law says Law enforcement has to have the tools to we need people to understand that kids Are at risk and we need to be More if this study can Point to the fact that parents dont really understand what their kids Are the evidence is almost despite naysayers who say kids should be free to roam the internet a study published yesterday in the journal of the american medical association said almost 20 per cent of children who use the internet Are the targets of online sexual propositions that Range from inquiries of their Bra size to efforts to Contact them in these Are the sort of online contacts that would be illegal under the proposed Canadian an Effort that would make it illegal for anyone to communicate with a child on the internet for the purpose of committing a sex Ual but that buried in the omnibus has been shelved for the this More detailed than any other in the is a landmark it Demon Strates the need for parents to become More involved with the lives of their it also demonstrates the need for solid political action to keep our children we can Only Hope for a National hotline for parents and Law enforcement for a Pool of integrated Law enforcement data and for sincere efforts by Law makers time and have proof that our children Are at crts the crts wants your input canals the crts proposes to Amend the nature of service licence conditions for news net and be canal by adding the stipulation in exceptional where the programming departs from the 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