دور الرقابة الأسرية على الأبناء في مجال الإنترنت : دراسة ميدانية على أولياء أمور طلاب المرحلة الثانوية في مدينة الأرطاوية
Study questions: 1) What are the control ways that should be followed by parents with their kids in the field of internet? 2) What are the guidance methods taken by parents to reduce the seriousness of the Internet? 3) What are the obstacles that face parents in controlling children for internet usage? 4) What are the treatment ways the parents should follow to reduce the children usage of internet? 5) Does there statistically significant differences that attribute to demographic variables for the study sample (age, social status, educational level, gender, economic level, number of children, children stay, number of hours children spend using the internet, and children access places to internet). Study goals: 1) Identify the control ways the parents should follow with their children in the field of internet. 2) Clarify the guidance methods the parents should take to reduce the seriousness of the Internet. 3) Recognize the obstacles the parents face in controlling children in internet usage. 4) Clarify the treatment ways the parents should follow to reduce the children usage of internet. 5) Identify the presence of statistically significant differences that attribute to demographic variables for the study sample (age, social status, educational level, gender, economic level, number of children, children stay, number of hours children spend using the internet, and children access places to internet). Study population: The study population consisted of all guardians of high school students in Alartawyah city (274 guardians). Study sample: The study used the simple random sampling of 240 individuals. Study method and instrument: The researcher depended on the analytical qualitative method by using the social survey method. Study findings: 1) One of the most important control ways the parents should follow over children in the field of internet is not allowing children to use and surf internet for more than two hours daily. Encourage children to use the internet at the house and give them a mobile if they needed and control them when they use the internet at the house. 2) The most important guidance methods the parents taken is urge the children’s motivation to educate and aware them the damages resulted by the internet usage. Encourage them to spend their spare time in the beneficial stuffs during their internet usage and to make the internet as a part of holiday programs in the weekends days. 3) One of the most important barriers the parents face when their children going out the home with their friends which will make the control process outside the house is difficult. The children convince their parents they take advantage of internet in the educational field. The children try to hide what they do online from their parents which will make the control process is difficult. 4) One of the most important treatments is follow up and communicate the children when they are going out the home or when they are late. Use the quite talk with their children and be caution when control them. Give time to going out with them for tours and clubs and contact the guardians of children friends to participate in the awareness of children of internet risks. Study recommendations: 1) Increase the family control over children in the field of internet because the control has a large role to reduce the internet risks. 2) Make awareness programs for fathers and mothers to aware them by the inappropriate usage of internet over children through TV channels. 3) Hold guidance courses for fathers and mothers by the private charities and neighborhoods’ centers in order to aware them. (Author’s abstract)