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Help When Involved with Pornography
Help When Involved with Pornography
I encourage you to prayerfully find a balance between allowing your kids appropriate privacy and monitoring their actions to keep them safe. Here is a great article detailing various online apps and explaining the dangers. It also includes step-by-step information to help parents protect their kids: "The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Your Kids Safe Online With Parental Controls."
Check out these tools to help your family . . . and you . . . stay safe on the Internet.
Aura. "Smart, simple online safety powered by AI. " Protect yourself and your family. . . . Protecting only yourself is like locking the door and leaving the window open—it’s partial protection. With Aura, it’s easy to keep a pulse on everyone’s digital safety. Family account members can share files, account credentials, and threat alerts—secured with military-grade encryption." Features include financial fraud protection, identity theft protection, VPN and online privacy, antivirus, password manager and vault, parental controls and safe gaming, spam call protection.
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Bark. "Parental controls reimagined." Along with the Bark App, which adds monitoring and parental controls to your kids' devices, check out the Bark Phone, a kid-safe phone with monitoring and custom parental controls. Bark allows parents to track location, manage screen time, monitor content, get alerts 24/7, and block websites. Bark scans your child's text messages, more than 30 social media apps, web browsers, emails, and other online activity. Offers AI-powered safety alerts. Personalized reports on your child's online activity along with expert guidance. |
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Covenant Eyes. Offers help for every member of the family . . . adults and kids. For your kids: "As a parent, you can be your child's best ally on their journey to quit porn or never start using it. The Covenant Eyes app monitors your child's devices while our Safe Search and filtering tools keep porn at bay. The Victory app gives you a comprehensive feed of their device activity and sends you alerts if explicit material is accessed. Browse the site to learn more about the tools available for couples, families, and individuals. |
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Enough Is Enough. "We are dedicated to raising public awareness about the dangers of Internet pornography, sexual predators and traffickers, other dangers and advance solutions that promote equality, fairness and respect for human dignity while promoting a shared responsibility between the public, technology, and the law."
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Family Keeper. Limit screen time. Monitor social media. Know where your kids are. Filter inappropriate content. Block apps. Monthly and annual plans. Unlimited child devices.
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Kaspersky. The all-in-one app for digital parenting and family wellbeing. . . . Kaspersky Safe Kids makes parental controls easy. Track whereabouts and device habits, restrict content, balance screen time and more in our easy-to-use app." Kids' apps available for three age categories: 3-5 years, 6-12 years, and 12-18 years. Features include the following:
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MSPY. Parental control app. "Find out what your child is doing on their phone and relax knowing they are making the right decisions." Learn of dangers. Stop cyberbullying. Monitor everything that happens on your child's smartphone or tablet in real time. Track their location. Find out who they are talking to and what their plans are. |
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Net Nanny. "The best parental control to keep your kids and family safe online. . . . With Net Nanny®, parents can monitor their family’s online activity and customize filters for each user. Our dynamic filtering technology blocks inappropriate content in real-time and provides the option to block, warn or allow users when viewing websites. Families can use Net Nanny® to protect users from pornography, online predators, cyber bullying, and other threats that compromise online safety." Features include parental controls, screen time management, website clocker, block apps, track location, Internet filter, block pornography, alerts and reporting, family feed, and parental dashboard. |
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Qustodio. "All the tools you need to protect your kids online." Features include:
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WizCase.. Article: "Kids Online: 40 Stats about Usage, Benefits, and Risks." A rather lengthy article but I found it to have some eye-opening information about kids and their phone and Internet usage, including specific dangers and precautions. Although not presented as a Christian perspective, I think every parent will find it helpful in helping their kids navigate the virtual world.
