About 1/3 of children consume a flood of pornography by age ten, and 80% of teens regularly pursue Internet pornography.
Campaigners warned that exposure to these images inflicts ‘serious mental harm’ on children and prevents them forming healthy adult relationships in later life.
-- From "A third of pupils aged ten view pornography on the internet" by Gerri Peev, UK Daily Mail 11/23/10
The average age of a child first exposed to pornography is just 11.
Parenting expert Tanya Byron . . . said: ‘The new generation of mobile phones is making accessing pornography easier with two-thirds of children admitting they had accessed explicit material on their handsets.
'Worryingly most parents are oblivious to how easy it is for children to download images.’
The figures were compiled from polls by YouGov, research in America and a study by child behavioural expert Tanya Byron.
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