Stay updated with breaking news from Kate Farina. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
More than half of the nine- to 17-year-olds in South Africa have seen sexual images on a phone or online device in the past year – 8% took naked photos or videos of themselves and two-thirds of those children shared them. Some experts report up to 15 cases of sextortion a day involving children...
"A lot of parents we chat to say that they just follow what their fellow parents do. The fact is that smartphones and tablets are designed for adults". (Rodion Kutsaev/Unsplash) According to research, by the time a child is 11, they will have accidentally been exposed to online porn. For her then nine-year-old son, Kate Farina discovered it happened while on a playdate. The experience got the environmental lawyer turned family digital wellness activist started on "a lot of research on 'what to do when your child has seen porn', but it was a silver lining", she says. ...