Possessive British parents, who in order to safeguard their children from street dangers, confine them to four walls of the house, are actually exposing them to the dangers associated with the net. 

This comes from a latest survey conducted by co-author Dr Leslie Haddon, of the EU Kids Online project, who claims that keeping children at home for longer duration of time can actually lead to dangerous online situations. The kids incredibly increase their time spending on the internet. 

The survey was based at the London School of Economics and it showed that an unwanted sexual comment was received by more than one in four young people in the UK, while using the internet. Such incidents were low in Germany and Ireland, where such comments were received by one of the ten children. 

Further more, the usage of net by the British children was 17%, which are twice as many as in Europe and Germany. 

Dr Leslie Haddon, reported, “Our study has found that greater use of the internet results in more exposure to risk.”

The study concludes that children who are left unsupervised during the time they use net, is more in Britain as compared to other countries in europe since Britain has more children who belong to single-parent families, divorcees and also born outside the marriages. All these factors really affect the upbringing of a child. 

The conclusion given by this study was, “Although more and more children and young people may be under greater supervision overall, by virtue of being in homes, within the privacy of their bedrooms their access to the online world is less easy to supervise.”