Nobody’s Children Foundation

                                                                Łukasz Wojtasik lukasz@fdn.pl

                                                                 September 2003

Research financed by UNICEF

Copyright ©2003 Nobody’s Children Foundation www.fdn.pl

CONTENTS

MAIN RESEARCH FINDINGS

INTRODUCTION

INFORMATION ABOUT THE STUDY

RESEARCH REPORT

-          Children’s Risky Behavior on the Internet

-          Unwanted Sexual Proposals

-          Unwanted Display of Abuse Images

-          Conclusions

MAIN RESEARCH FINDINGS

• The key findings from an online survey conducted among 8991 regular users of the Internet aged 12–17:
• Children using the Internet do not follow fundamental safety rules. In the preceding year 64% of the respondents have given a stranger their phone number, and 42% have given a stranger their home address.
• A quarter of the participants have personally met a stranger „known” from the Internet.
• 56% of the children have been induced to unwanted sexual conversations.
• 30% of the children felt frightened/scared about this situation
• In the preceding years 80% of the children have inadvertently encountered pornographic materials on the Web.