Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace - Softcover

Hughes, Donna Rice; Campbell, Pamela T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080075672X ISBN 13: 9780800756727

Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co, 1998

Synopsis

Provides step-by-step instructions for keeping children safe while surfing the Internet

About this title

From Booklist:

Once the precipitant of Gary Hart's political downfall, Hughes is now an antipornography crusader. She teams with Christian journalist Campbell to produce a parents' guide to guarding children against hard-core porn on the Internet and pedophilic spiders on the World Wide Web. It is packed with argument and advice, the former even-tempered, though ill-supported by some weak references, and the latter emphasizing parental responsibility and trusting, tender parent-child relations. Hughes and Campbell urge parents to become computer literate, create guidelines for home use of the Net and the Web, and stock a software "toolbox" for blocking, filtering, and customizing cyberspace access. More controversially, they recommend ascertaining whether schools and public libraries are protecting kids from Net porn and, if not, seeing that they do. They realize that First Amendment stalwarts' feathers may be ruffled (they treat ALA and ACLU positions respectfully, though), and also that better law enforcement and the revival of the judicially approved concept of community standards for obscenity would effect much of the protection they seek. Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: Fleming H Revell Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 080075672X
• ISBN 13: 9780800756727
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 269