It is about whether they will see it anyways. This is not about whether your children have a desire to see porn. I’ve heard that same story hundreds of times while speaking to young audiences about porn, and a recent study confirmed not only that many children first see porn by accident, but that the vast majority of those wished they had not seen it. It might surprise them to know that most children stumble across porn first by accident. Many parents are under the mistaken belief that so long as kids are not looking for porn, or so long as the Internet in the home is filtered, everything is safe. But the porn industry is most certainly looking for your kids. Many mothers and fathers strive to give their sons and daughters a childhood defined by innocence, and one in which they can simply enjoy the simple things in life without having their small minds clouded with information about the omnipresent digital content that is not adult so much as evil.īut it is essential that parents realize something: Your children may not be looking for pornography. They haven’t been exposed to material that would pique their interest in sexual matters yet, and thus children can be children and there is no need to mar their innocence by broaching topics like porn. They aren’t thinking about sexual things yet. Over and over again, I’ve had parents tell me that their children would never search for pornography online.
