THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY IN PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM THE DANGERS OF THE INTERNET

Abstract

Researchers and scholars today almost unanimously agree that the Internet is one of the effective media means in engineering human behavior, and some of them argue that the Internet has been able to revolutionize people’s moods and people’s habits, and culture and it is a tremendous force in influencing minds, attitudes, and valuesin children. The family has historically constituted the primary agency for raising and upbringing children, and with the entry of the Internet into the home, there has been a noticeable changein her duties represented in the shrinking of its roles in the process of raising itschildren to account for the Internet, which has gradually begun to take over the function of raising and learning the child through technological media whose content may not be consistentWith the goals of good education that families aspire to in Arab societies. From this standpoint, the central problem of this research can be put forward, represented in revealing whether the Internet currently reduces the educational burdens of the family, or increases its troubles and presents it with new tasks