Home Computers Used Primarily For Learning, Families Say in Survey

By Andrew Trotter

Washington

Parents might not be at sea, after all, when their children go into cyberspace.

A new study of American families finds that the reason most parents and children buy computers and use the Internet from home is to pursue education, and that they regard the online experience as positive and healthy, though not without some dangers.

The study, conducted by the market-research firm Grunwald Associates, was commissioned by the National School Boards Foundation, an arm of the Alexandria, Va.-based...