- Parents’ Concerns
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Table 1
“Suppose a web site asked a teenager 13-17 old to answer the following questions in
order to get a great free gift. Do you think it is completely OK, OK, not OK or not al
all OK for a teenager to give the following information to a web-site to get a free
gift?” Percentages of respondents answering completely OK and OK.
Is it OK to give out:
US
Parents
US
Children
Israeli
Parents
Israeli
Children
Names of his or her favorite stores
43
65
60
80
Names of his/her parents’ favorite stores
31
54
51
62
Whether his/her parents talk a lot about politics
26
39
38
56
How many times his/her parents have gone to a place of worship in
the past month
25 29 35 38
Whether he/she has skin problems
24
25
20
30
What types of cars the family owns
21
45
35
49
What he/she does on the weekends
18
39
33
45
How many days of school he/she missed in the past year
18
35
32
52
How much allowance he/she gets
17
40
29
42
Whether he/she cheated in school in the past year
16
21
30
42
Whether the family drinks wine or beer with dinner
16
23
36
46
Whether his/her parents speed when they drive
15
24
25
32
Whether his/her parents have skin problems
15
19
19
26
What his/her parents do on the weekends
10
26
24
29
How many days of work his/her parents missed in the past year
10
21
23
32
Table 2
Percentage of parents (US N=1001, Isr N=1003) who answer “yes” when asked
whether any of their children ever viewed sexually explicit images on the web,
viewed unacceptably violent material, been involved in a chat room or communicated
with unacceptable people, and given out information the child shouldn’t have and of
those, percentage of respondents who think their children did this on purpose.
Incoming
information
Outgoing
Information
Sex
Violence
Chat
room
Web
sites
Israeli
parent
US
parent
Israeli
parent
US
parent
Israeli
parent
US
parent
Israeli
parent
US
parent
Involvement
in
questionable
web activity
18 21 9
7 6
13 47 9
Involvement
is purposive
78 53 62 51 52 23 34 42
(184)
(208)
(90) (71)
(62) (128)
(64) (92)
Convention