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If you are thinking about, or already have pictures of your children on the Internet I would like to encourage you to read the following information. Placing pictures of children online is a lot more dangerous than you think.

You have the power to protect your children online. It is up to you to make decisions that are best for your children. Every parent is proud of their children and loves to show them off to friends and family.

Never place the URL of the page your child's picture is on any bulletin board system or email list. Anyone can be reading the boards or receiving the email. Pedophiles regularly surf family and club bulletin boards for just such postings. Pedophiles have joined groups posing as someone they aren't, in hopes to make friends with women in order to obtain pictures of their children.

Entering your child in a "cute kid contest" is not a good idea because these pages are always visited by pedophiles and it is so easy to copy the pictures to re-use. I have been to message boards run by pedophiles and have seen the horrible things they say about what they found, and they give the links to others so that they can go take a peek too. I know this sounds sick, but believe me, it does happen. I am only trying to make you more aware of the dangers on the internet.

Please take this as a serious warning to refrain from putting your childs picture anywhere that it can be accessed by a pedophile.

Keep personal information general.  The name of your child's school and classroom teacher, your phone number, address, etc. make it all too easy for someone to track down your child and learn their daily routines.

Child molesters are primarily family or friends of the child as opposed to strangers. BUT what you have to realize is that the Internet has fast become a haven for pedophiles who find it very easy to locate your children's pictures and download them to their own systems. These people are using your children's pictures for their pleasure *fantasy*. They even place your child's picture on their web pages and offer them to other pedophiles to use. They also add them to packages they sometimes offer on a CD and sell. Some even use your children's pictures to represent real or fabricated stories about their sexual encounters with them. These people use search engines such as Google, Alta Vista, Yahoo, Excite, Mining Company, etc, to locate sites about peoples children. They search through family sites and communities on such hosts as Geocities, Tripod, Xoom, Angelfire, etc. They are looking for pictures and information about your child and they do find them. The majority of parents online would be horrified to see a picture of their child on a pedophiles site being used in horrific ways.

Please join me in encouraging those you know to remove childrens pictures from personal web pages, and also from entering your beautiful children in these contests on the web, that gives you a t-shirt or a toy for your entry. It isn't worth the danger that could happen.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and if you have any questions, please contact me

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