Parenting: 46% of mothers do not allow their children to see their full Facebook profile

According to foreign media reports, 90% of American mothers make friends with their children on the social network Facebook, according to a survey by Parenting Group, publisher of American parenting magazines Parenting and Babytalk. The group surveyed more than 1,100 American mothers and found that nearly half of the respondents would also modify the security settings in their Facebook profile pages to prevent their children from seeing inappropriate photos or videos and certain status updates.

The survey also found that one-third of mothers with children as young as 12 allowed their children to set up their own profiles on the social network. Facebook's internal rules and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act prohibit children under 13 from setting up profiles on the social network, but Facebook has difficulty enforcing the rules for its more than 800 million users' profiles.

Only 20% of the respondents would limit their children's use of Facebook. About 30% of the mothers would only let their children use social networks after they have finished their homework. More than half of the mothers set a limit of no more than one hour a day for their children to use Facebook.

Of the remaining 10% of moms who do not friend their children on Facebook, about 75% log into Facebook as someone else to monitor their child's profile. This includes creating another child's profile or a fake profile to monitor. In addition, 77% of moms friend at least one of their child's friends.

The study also touched on several questions about smartphone use. On average, each mother downloaded about 11 apps to her smartphone. However, four of these apps were downloaded for their children. 40% of the mothers allowed their children to play games on their smartphones every day, and 35% of the mothers allowed their children to use their smartphones for at least one hour a day.