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Parents say they are getting control of their children’s exposure to sex and violence in the media, and they remain concerned about inappropriate content in the media in general, according to a new national survey of parents by the Kaiser Family Foundation, MarketingCharts reports.
Some 65 percent of parents say they “closely” monitor their children’s media use, while just 18 percent say they “should do more.”
Those numbers might explain why since 1998 the proportion of parents who say they are “very” concerned that their own children are exposed to inappropriate content - while still high - has dropped, according to Kaiser:
Parents are particularly confident in monitoring their children’s online activities: Nearly three out of four parents (73 percent) say they know “a lot” about what their kids are doing online (among all parents with children 9 or older who use the internet at home):
Still, parents express significant concerns about children’s exposure to inappropriate media content in general:
African American and Hispanic parents are more likely than Whites to say they are “very concerned” about their children’s exposure to sex, violence and adult language in the media:
MarketingCharts provides a bunch more findings from the “Parents, Children & Media: A Kaiser Family Foundation Survey.”
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