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A survey of parents finds the Internet has become as important to families as television.
Withholding Access to the Internet
Parents place
limits for bad
behavior
(AP) — No TV for a week,
the time-honored punishment for
misbehaving children, has been
enhanced. Now, parents are also
withholding Internet access to
punish their kids, further sign
that the Web has become as
important to families as televi
sion.
As the two mediums con-
verge, parents are quickly com-
ing to see TV and the Internet
in similar ways and are seek-
ing to limit their kids' access to
both, according to a report out
this week from researchers at
the University of Southern Cali
fornia.
The survey from the USC
Annenberg Center for the Digi-
tai Future found that two-thirds
of parents say they restrict their
kids' access to TV as punish-
ment, a number that has barely
budged over the past 10 years,
But the percentage of parents
who limit Internet access as a
form of punishment has nearly
doubled in the last decade.
Among parents surveyed this
spring, 57 percent said they with-
held Web access to punislftheir
kids. That is up from 32 percent
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Michael Gilbert, a senior fel- for parents to monitor what their
Rev. W.J. Mark Knutson, Pastor
low at the center, said parents kids are doing,
are starting to not see a big
distinction between TV watch
ing and Internet use. Even so,
parents are still more comfort-
able with the amount of time kids
spend on the Internet — 71 per-
cent said it was "just about right"
compared with just 51 percent
for TV.
Earlier surveys by the center
have shown that families are
spending less time together than
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they used to, a decline that has
coincided with the explosive
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growth of social networks in the
past few years.
Now, parents are saying
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Internet access at home is also
reducing the time their children
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spend with their friends face-to-
face. Gilbert called this a worri-
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some trend, though noted that
u n til about 3 a.m.
the number of parents to report
this is still small — 11 percent in
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2010 compared with 7 percent in
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Of course, the Internet and
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social networks also make it
easier to communicate and they
help families stay in touch with
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loved ones.
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"The answer is never about
technology. It's always about
Get home safely this holiday. Cheers!
parental responsibility," Gilbert
said. But he noted that the explo-
si ve growth of digital technology
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