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Charlie Elizabeth Culverhouse

“Violent content has become a normal part of children’s online lives” says Ofcom, as they push for new online safety measures

Young girl on her phone.

New research by media watchdog Ofcom has revealed that young children in the UK are now 'unavoidably' exposed to violent content online, with it being 'inevitable' that they will come across harmful content every time they go online.

Social media; can't live with it, can't live without it. It's arguably one of the biggest parenting struggles today to keep kids safe online. Whereas once we worried mostly about cyberbullying, which is still a huge issue, we now also have to take precautions to keep kids safe on social media and make sure we're up to date with the 'life-saving' questions to ask a child if they’re online gaming. These are worries that the previous generation of parents didn't have to think, about and navigating the issue is made all the more difficult for the fact that we, as well as experts, don't fully understand the dangers yet. 

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