Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2022
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Parents’ views towards the benefits of being online versus the risks for their child varied greatly by the type of online activity
Parents of 3-17s were more likely to be positive about their child’s use of the internet to gather information than they were about other social and entertainment activities. Almost six in ten parents agreed that the benefits of using the internet to gather information (for example using search engines, Wikipedia or news websites) outweighed the risks (58%). This compares to just four in ten who agreed that benefits outweighed the risks in relation to gaming (38%), and three in ten who agreed the same in relation to social media, messaging and video sharing (28%). While there were no differences by age group for gaming, parents of 12-17-year-olds were significantly more likely than parents of younger children aged 3-11 to feel that the benefits outweighed the risks for both information gathering and social media, messaging and video sh...
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