Oh, Those Interactive Girls takes

You’ve got mail, and your daughter already read it. A study by the Girl Scout Research Institute asked teenage girls to say what they could do online without their parents’ knowledge. More than half (57 percent) said they could read their parents’ e-mail. Of interest to e-tailers: 38 percent of the girls said they could covertly buy things online. If parents are oblivious to such possibilities, perhaps it’s because they chiefly fear their online girls “might be meeting strangers who are perverts”—a worry voiced by 36 percent of the mothers and fathers.