Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace [Paperback]

Donna Rice Hughes (Author), Pamela Campbell (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1998

For both the cyber-savvy and the newcomer, this book helps parents explore the wonders of the Web with their and offers practical, step-by-step guidance for learning about the Internet.

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From Booklist

Once the precipitant of Gary Hart's political downfall, Hughes is now an antipornography crusader. She teams with Christian journalist Campbell to produce a parents' guide to guarding children against hard-core porn on the Internet and pedophilic spiders on the World Wide Web. It is packed with argument and advice, the former even-tempered, though ill-supported by some weak references, and the latter emphasizing parental responsibility and trusting, tender parent-child relations. Hughes and Campbell urge parents to become computer literate, create guidelines for home use of the Net and the Web, and stock a software "toolbox" for blocking, filtering, and customizing cyberspace access. More controversially, they recommend ascertaining whether schools and public libraries are protecting kids from Net porn and, if not, seeing that they do. They realize that First Amendment stalwarts' feathers may be ruffled (they treat ALA and ACLU positions respectfully, though), and also that better law enforcement and the revival of the judicially approved concept of community standards for obscenity would effect much of the protection they seek. Ray Olson

Product Details

• Paperback: 269 pages
• Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company (August 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 080075672X
• ISBN-13: 978-0800756727
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,465,293 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lack of understanding of global scope makes this a poor read, November 8, 1999

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This review is from: Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (Paperback)

The lack of global scope in a book about a global network makesthis an incomplete book on this subject. The author does a decent jobof summarizing some of the issues, but fails to acknowlegde that US laws do not apply to servers located in countries outside of the US. This leaves the unknowing reader with the belief that US laws would help the situation. Although this may be what the author wants the reader to believe, it is not an accurate reflection of the situation.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Are your kids in a chat room right now?, September 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (Paperback)

Better order this book and then get offline and do some quality parenting! Donna Rice Hughes goes far beyond breezy tips and will ground you in Internet basics, dangers, and solutions. Everything is cited and it's obvious that much research was done in order to create a book for parents who want their kids online--but safely.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A calm assessment of the perils and the glory of the Web., January 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace (Paperback)

If I were a member of the Christian right(I'm not),this is the book I'd want to represent me. As it is, I appreciate the respect afforded my beliefs and I certainly appreciate some of the advice applicable to my grandkids.