Parents Report Their Kids Will Increase Time Spent Online This Summer
For most American school children, summer vacation is officially underway, and with scores of young people away from the classroom, many of them will spend their free time on the Internet that’s according to their parents. Nearly 30 percent of parents report their kids will spend more time online this summer than they did during the school year. More than 50 percent said their children will spend the same amount of time online, according to a new national survey of parents with kids ages 18 and under released today by the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA).
Video games are even more popular. More than 31 percent of the parents in the NCSA survey reported that their kids will spend most of their online time this summer playing video games, a finding that is even more striking given that less than one percent of parents plan to make monitoring the gaming console a top priority. Fully 97 percent of 12-to-17 year olds play computer, Web, portable and console games games that often require an Internet connection to interact with other players, found a separate Pew study.
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