(Ann Arbor, MI) -- Parents are concerned about the safety of their children on the Internet but few are closely monitoring their offsprings web surfing.

Researchers at the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan have found while 65-percent of parents take steps to disable pop-up advertising only 32-percent have installed child-safe software on their computers.

Less than half, 49-percent, block websites they don't want their children to visit.

Sixty-one-percent claim they check the web surfing history of their youngsters after the fact.

A whopping 81-percent of parents report their nine-to-17-year-old children are allowed to use the Internet without adult supervision.

Forty-six-percent of parents say their children have their own social networking profiles on Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Hi5 and other sites.

The survey finds parents of girls are concerned about different things than parents of boys who go online.

For girls the number one concern is sexual predators.

For boys, parents are more worried about them accessing porn sites.

The full report along with survey questions is posted on the University of Michigan website, Med.Umich.edu.

　

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