Other findings of the survey are:
1) The average age of a child to start using the internet to search for adult content is 11 years.
2) 97 percent of the parents surveyed said they had installed parental controls software on a PC the child uses. However, 12 percent of them admitted that their child has successfully uninstalled or unlocked the software.
3) Adults are in no way senitized in this regard, with nearly two thirds (62 percent) of adults admitting that they had searched for and accessed adult content on the web themselves.
4) The survey found that parents wish to control a child’s access to porn online, until he/she is considered too young for the content. This is reflected, when 87 percent of parents said they would allow children over 19 to surf the web for sexual content.
BitDefender notes that while parents understood the necessity of a parental control software and the need to monitor their teenagers' activity on social networks and on the internet in general, they are very aware that children will always find a way to access adult content. This, notes the security firm, makes the role of parental control in this context more important.
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Many parents will want to see the findings of the survey, as restricted to a particular country. But contrary to their wish; if their kid has access to a web connected PC (or even a non-connected one) from an early age; the kid's behavior regarding porn can mimic that revealed by the survey.
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