04 What Many Parents Don’t Know “If MySpace was a country, it would be the 8th largest in the world.”1 online. They are actually spend-ing In many countries it seems there is a disconcerting gap between what parents think is happening online and what children know is going on. For example: In the UK 81% of parents are confident they know what their children are look-ing around 70 hours per month online . In the USA 86% of teenage girls said they could chat in a chat room with-out their parent’s knowledge and 30% said they had been sexually harassed in a chat room but only 7% told their parents immediately because they were worried they would be banned from using chat rooms again . at online. 31% of UK kids dis-agree . In France 85% of parents know about parental control software but only 30% have installed it . The high-est level of use of safety software is in India where 55% of parents have set controls on web usage. In Brazil parents think their children are spending 56 hours per month