Currently, our parent is able to buy and install a blocking program such as SurfWatch . We feel that this situation fails to capture what parents currently do, and will fail to meet the needs of our example parent. Parents also face a number of challenges which are not addressed by many of the other proposals, but which are essentially similar to the need to control children's access to sexually-explicit material. For example, imagine the dilemma faced by parents of black or Jewish children who want the chance to talk to their children before the youngsters view Aryan Nation material.
Scenario When visualizing a problem, it often helps to have a reference example.
For this proposal, we imagine a parent with two children, one 14 year old daughter and one 7 year old son. Our example parent faces the problem of deciding which of the over 4 million possible URLs she will permit her children to examine. She has heard something about these toys and is concerned that they are too violent. She might read the labels on the toy boxes which say, for example, Appropriate for children 7 years of age and older . She might also talk to parents of other children in her son's grade-school class and find out what they think.