Online Predators

Parents will gain insight on how to assist their child in creating a safer profile, and displaying appropriate images. This book will help the reader choose software that can act as a 'virtual' parent to supervise their child's activities.

Online predators have become every parent’s nightmare. This book teaches kids how to stay away from untrustworthy people online and what to do if an online predator does contact them.

The fact that so much of our lives are online erodes our privacy. This has dangerous consequences; for kids it can even lead to being targeted by online predators. This book teaches readers how they can protect their privacy online. It explains what to do if contacted by a predator and reminds kids singled out by predators that it was not their fault.

Chat rooms. MySpace and other social networking sites. E-mails. Blogs. Instant messages. Today’s children and teens are constantly communicating online. But do they know how to keep themselves and their personal information safe from online predators? This title explains potential online dangers and how predators in cyberspace operate, discusses risks, and provides clear, practical tips and advice on how to stay safe.

In Online Predators, An Internet Insurgency: A Field Manual for Teaching and Parenting in the Digital Arena Jeffrey A. Lee brings his ten plus years’ experience in the fight against online child exploitation to bear in an easy to follow guide for all with a stake in the life of a child. This book equips parents, guardians, extended family, and educational professionals with practical strategies to help keep kids safe in a technology connected world. Instead of focusing on ever changing technology, Lee proposes a key fundamental change in the fight against online predation—to develop an insatiable curiosity about their child’s online life, then get in the front lines and stay there.

The Internet is great for entertainment, information, and keeping in touch with people who are far away. But it can also connect you to predators who could take advantage of you, or worse! This book teaches you how to stay safe from online predators.

There were 13 emergent themes in this guide and those themes were; lack of parental support, anonymity on the Internet, teenage loneliness, social networking websites and chat rooms, teenage personality (introversive and extroversive), teenage rebellion, teenage need for relationships, instant gratification among teenagers, teenage low self-esteem, improved parental support, improved education, improved law enforcement and additional circumstances leading to the teenage Internet sexual assault phenomenon.