Michael McKinnor's 13- and 14-year-old sons weren't exactly happy when they heard their dad would be monitoring their online activities, but according to McKinnor, they're warming up to it. "I don't tell them what they can and can't look at on the Web, but MSN gives me a way to intervene if I need to," says McKinnor, a mechanic in Lawndale, Calif. Like families everywhere that are connected to the Web, the McKinnors face decisions about how to protect their children from adult-oriented content. "If I see a site on the weekly activity report they're not ready for, I can ask them what they thought about it and go from there," the father says.
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