Teen Suicide and Cyber-World Risks
Did you know that suicide is the second leading cause of death among adolescents according to the American Academy of Pediatrics? Bullying, Cyberbullying: There are many risk factors for adolescents committing suicide and one of them is bullying. A review of 31 studies found “a clear relationship between both bullying victimization and perpetration and suicidal ideation and behavior in children and adolescents. Females were at risk regardless of frequency.” Is your tween or teen being cyberbullied...
Read MoreSextortion, an Online Crime Harming Today’s Children, Tweens and Teens
Sextortion, a growing online crime Sextortion victims can be left with permanent scars. It’s important for parents to know what sextortion is in today’s digital world because of the impact it can have on children, tweens and teens. What is sextortion? According to the FBI, sextortion is a serious crime that is a growing concern. It’s “a crime exclusive to the digital age. Predators pretend to be teens on social media and gaming sites. They befriend young people, gain their trust and entice them to send lewd photos of themselves. Then they use the photos to extort more...
Read MoreWhen Children and Teens Go Online, Parents Need to Be Aware…
ISIS Recruitment Online Strangers Violent Video Games… Parents Need to Be Aware of Who Their Children and Teens are Engaging With Online and What Their Children and Teens are Doing and Seeing Online! ISIS, the radical Muslim terrorist group also known as the Islamic State, is recruiting vulnerable youth worldwide using social media. “By May 2015, hundreds of U.S. citizens had joined the fight on the side of the extremists.” Teens ranging in age from 13 to their early 20s are being deceived into leaving their homes in the U.S. and Western Europe to travel to the Iraq and Syria for indoctrination...
Read MoreDoes Encouraging Someone to Commit Suicide Cross the Line of Free Speech?
A girl allegedly repeatedly encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself via text messages. He died as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning. Now two years later the girlfriend is in court after being charged with manslaughter. Is a person that encourages someone to kill themselves protected under the constitution’s first amendment right of free speech? During the trial, Justice Robert Cory asked the big question, “When did this cross the line — when did these words cross the line?” Kids’ encouraging other kids to kill themselves is happening everyday via cyberbullying on social networking sites....
Read MoreScreenRetriever Recognized…
Thanks to SecuritySearch.co of New Zealand for recognizing ScreenRetriever as an online safety tool for parents. They are so right when they say that parenting online is not spying. Many parents still believe that the online world and offline world are two separate entities. But it’s important for parents to understand that the online world and offline world are one and the same for kid’s today. Parenting offline is now only half of the equation for parents today. To be a parent in today’s digitally dominated world, parents must we aware of what their children are doing online, and how...
Read MoreIt’s a Sad Day When Parents Need To Purchase Cyberbullying Insurance!
It’s a Sad Day When Parents Need to Purchase Cyberbullying Insurance! Oh how the world has changed in fifteen years since the cyber world, social media and apps became dominant players. Now there is cyberbullying insurance available in the U.K. Chubb Insurance is offering their policy holders who buy their personal insurance additional cyberbullying coverage which can be use to pay for counseling and victims’ lost income if they are off work for a week or more. It may even cover relocation expenses if the victim has to move. Sadly, cyberbullying has become all too common place and a big...
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