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Signs your Child May be at Risk Online

  • Your child spends large amounts of time on-line, especially at night.
  • You find pornography or other "banned" material on your child's computer.
  • Your child receives telephone calls from someone (particularly an adult) you don't know, or is making telephone calls, sometimes long distance, to telephone numbers you don't recognize.
  • Your child receives mail, gifts, or packages from someone you don't know.
  • Your child turns the computer off or quickly changes the screen when you come into the room.
  • Your child is using an on-line account belonging to someone else.
  • Your child becomes withdrawn from the family.