Parents, however, are worryingly ignorant about their children’s online behaviour and experiences. While more than half of teens reported that pictures of them had been posted online to embarrass them, only a fifth of parents believed this had happened to their child.
The research report, entitled Beyond the School Gates, revealed that nearly one in five teenagers said they had been threatened online – yet only seven per cent of parents believed this was something that affected their child.
Two-thirds of young people claimed they could do anything online without anyone checking on them – but only 42 per cent of parents said this was the case.
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