Parents Still Struggling with the Ethics of Using Parental Control Software.

St. Louis, MO – March 31st, 2005 – PC Tattletale.Com - With the Internet playing an ever-increasing role in sex crimes committed against children, according to a 2003 study by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, parents are often at a loss when it comes to protecting their children online. As a result, many parents turn to parental control software to help, but feel guilty about using it.

Faced with almost daily “Amber Alerts” and other news stories profiling yet another child sex abuse case or Internet abduction, parents are starting to realize what law enforcement has been saying for years; the Internet is not a safe place for unsupervised children.

A study conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice revealed that nearly one in five children between the ages of 10 and 17 received sexual solicitations within the past year. According to a national survey of 1,501 other teens, Seventy percent of these unwanted solicitations happened when the youth was using the Internet. Worse yet, 49 percent of these teens never told anyone about it.

Clearly parents have caused to be conflicted. “We speak with parents who are clearly conflicted about the ethics involved in using Internet monitoring software,” says Don Schnure, President of PC Tattletale Parental Control Software.

“Parents tell us that they want to protect their children, but feel guilty about spying on them.” But the fact is that if their child is using the Internet, it's only a matter of time until that child is exposed to things or people that they shouldn't be.

“We try to reassure them and get them to see them to see the ethical issue as one that is black and white,” says Don Schnure. “When you use parental control software to monitor your child's online activities, you're acting as a responsible parent by taking charge of the people and images that assault your child everyday online.”

PC Tattletale Internet Monitoring & parental control software gives any parent the ability to know exactly what their children are doing online.

Once installed PC Tattletale software runs undetectable in the background recording everything that happens on the machine. This recorded information is stored in a secret location so that only the parents can see exactly where their children have been and what they did while online.

Certainly some may see the use of this type of software is an “invasion of privacy” issue. However, when weighed against the potential risks of not knowing what your child is doing or whom they’re talking to online, the perceived privacy of a juvenile, absolutely has to take a back seat to their personal safety.

PC Tattletale Internet Monitoring Software is available for PCs running all versions of Windows 95, Windows 98, ME, XP, Media Edition and Windows NT 4.0 or higher.

To get your free non-expiring demo of PC Tattletale Parental Control Software just visit: http://www.pctattletale.com and protect your child in 5 minutes.

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Contact Information:

Don Schnure
PCTattletale.Com
314-835-1510
pr@pctattletale.com
http://www.pctattletale.com