Keyword : Parents’ Risk Perception, Pornography, Mental Development, Children, Enugu Metropolis
Author(s) : JOSEPHAT OKOYE, PhD, ANDREW C. APEH, Ph.D And PEACE OZIOMA MADUEKE
Abstract :
This study evaluated parents‘ risk perception of the influence of pornography on the mental development of children in Enugu metropolis. The objectives of the study include to: find out the extent to which parents in Enugu metropolis are aware of child pornography, find out the perception of parents in Enugu on the dangers of child pornography, ascertain the extent to which parents raise perception on child pornography influence their parental vigilant and ascertain the factors that lead to child pornography. The survey research method was adopted for the study. The sources of data used were the primary and secondary sources of data. The population of the study was 428,977 while the sample size of 400 was determined using Taro Yamane‘s formula. The findings included that parents in Enugu metropolis are aware of child pornography to a large extent, parents perceive the dangers of child pornography in Enugu metropolis to include that pornography makes a child lose sleep, harms a child view of sex, and harms a child‘s brain, establishing your right and authority as a parent, reducing incidence of child molestation and runaways and checking the friends of the children are the measures taken by parents on child pornography and the factors that lead to child pornography include lack of moral education, lack of internet safety and indecent dressing among children. The researchers recommended that parents should be observant of what their children watch on television, phones, magazines etc because there are many of pornographic content in the media, parents should always bear in mind the dangers of child pornography and even let their children know about it via sex education, parents should establish their right as parents and also reduce the incidence of child molestation and parents should be aware of the factors that lead to child pornography and try to prevent it in their various homes. It was concluded that parents‘ risk perception of pornography has a significant influence on the mental development of children in Enugu metropolis
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