Talk to kids about online porn, because they're finding it during the pandemic

During the coronavirus pandemic, stressed out parents have embraced screens as a reliable way to keep their kids entertained for hours at a time. 

But amidst the classroom Zoom calls, marathon Minecraft sessions, and YouTube bingeing, there may be an unwelcome distraction: porn. 

Kids find porn online regardless of whether there's a global pandemic that's forced more than 50 million of them to stay home from school. Now many kids happen to be spending more time online with probably less supervision, more feelings of loneliness, and a lot of curiosity. 

A new set of commercials produced by AMAZE, a YouTube sex ed series for adolescents and teens, gives parents a glimpse of what happens when adults aren't aware of what their children encounter online.  Read more...