Until we installed Firefox, my 10 yo daughter and two teenaged sons were “enjoying” xxx porn pop ups that we could not get rid of.
Same here. I really like Firefox for that reason. I don't know how it works, but it seems to work a lot better than some of the others. Limiting my kid's experience online is unapologetically censorship on my part, but then I'm not the government & my home is not a democracy. I refer to it as a "benign dictatorship" :)
I think I agree with you. You probably should not have exposed your children to technology that you didn't understand.
I didn't allow my children to have access to porn until I thought they were old enough to appreciate it, at which point I installed a computer with high speed internet access in their room and allowed them to close their door when they wanted privacy.
I, who was denied access to porn until much later in life, was no where near as healthy in attitude or practice at that age as they are now.
I suspect porn is less unhealthy for a child than controlling, repressed parents who think of nudity and sex as dirty.
Guns don't kill people and computers do not expose children to anything, but those who own guns and computers are responsible for what is done with them.
You knowingly allowed your children to enjoy porn. I wonder what the Nanny State Conservatives think of that.
There are simple ways to manage things like that with IE. You can create a simple text file that says what domains are allowable and which are not. It kills pop-ups and stops your kid from visiting actual porn sites. The problem was that you didn't understand the technology you were exposing your kids to. You probably didn't even ask anyone who would know about the technology for help with your problem.