how do i get an email address for my child without having a credit card?

Answer 1

You should create a Family account.

How to create a family account.

How to register your child:
If your child is under 13, please go to the Yahoo! Registration page and fill out the form with your child's date of birth and other requested information. After clicking the "I Agree" button to submit the registration, you will be prompted to grant permission for your child and link their account to yours. If you do not already have an account on Yahoo!, you will be allowed to create one for yourself.

To create a Family Account, we do require you to verify that you are an adult by providing Yahoo! with a valid credit card (if you have not already done so). You will not be charged, and your credit card information will not be stored by Yahoo!.

Please note: Only children under the age of 13 can be added to a Family Account.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/family/using/family-05.html

Yahoo! is concerned about the safety and privacy of all its users, particularly children. For this reason, parents of children under the age of 13 who wish to allow their children access to the Service must create a Yahoo! Family Account. When you create a Yahoo! Family Account and add your child to the account, you certify that you are at least 18 years old and that you are the legal guardian of the child/children listed on the Yahoo! Family Account. By adding a child to your Yahoo! Family Account, you also give your child permission to access many areas of the Service, including, email, message boards and instant messaging (among others). Please remember that the Service is designed to appeal to a broad audience. Accordingly, as the legal guardian, it is your responsibility to determine whether any of the Service areas and/or Content (as defined in Section 6 below) are appropriate for your child.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

* You can get a family account by clicking on this link.
https://edit.yahoo.com/config/eval_register?.src=fam&.done=http://www.yahoo.com

What is a Yahoo! Family Account?
A Yahoo! Family Account is a free account that allows you to control the information your child shares with Yahoo! and to maintain and monitor their account on an ongoing basis.

With your Yahoo! Family Account, you can:

Create separate Yahoo! IDs for each child under 13 in your family.
Modify your child's account information and other information stored on Yahoo!.
Modify your child's Yahoo! Mail Block List and Yahoo! Messenger Friend List and Ignore List.
Sign in as your child to modify any aspect of their account.
Protect your child from accessing certain age-restricted areas of Yahoo!.
Yahoo! Family Accounts also offers a set of resources to help your family learn to safely surf the Web.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/family/basics/family-01.html

Answer 2

I can understand how that could be difficult, since you have not even figured out how to get a credit card. To get a credit card, give your bank $300. To get an email address for your child, buy your child a computer.

Answer 3

You can set up a Yahoo! Family Account. I've heard they're easy to use and your child can have his/her own private email instead of you, your child and anyone else all having the share the same inbox.

It will also allow your child(ren) to access things like Answers and all other "Service" provided things (it's called that in the ToS). Your child can also access IM and other things but I think you can also set up parental controls too incase you don't want your child(ren) to access a certain part of the combined Service.

PS: In the Hotmail ToS it says that the user or person who opens the account must be 18 or over. I'm 15 and my dad had to set up my account on there.

Answer 4

What I think the person means is that you need a credit card to verify your age when setting up an email account for someone below a certain age. Unfortunately, the only thing I can think of is to lie about the child's age.

Answer 5

you shouldn't need a credit card for an email address. Just search for "free email" and there are scores out there. The most obvious are Yahoo, Hotmail, and GMail. Try Mail.com for interesting domains to chose from.

Answer 6

Go to any search engine & type in free email accounts. Your main choices will be things like Yahoo, Hotmail, and others. If you know anyone with a Gmail address, ask them to invite you to join & they can offer an invitation.

Also note, depending on your service (verizon, etc...) you might already have four or five accounts to use that you haven't yet activated. Check with your carrier too.

Answer 7

hotmail or yahoo. I have never given a credit card for an email address.

Answer 8

If you already have an Internet service provider, then you can use Yahoo to get your child an e-mail address.
If you dont have and Internet service provider, then some do allow you to use a checking account to pay for the monthly fees. I have not checked into them recently, but i think AOL now does that. Or you can try and of the others and see if they do.

Answer 9

I've never needed a credit card to get an email account. There's no need to pay for one at all.

Just use www.yahoo.com or www.hotmail.com and you'll have to come up with a user name that hasn't already been taken. NOTE: Avoid using your child's actual name ias the ID as that could aid online predators.

Answer 10

AOL. (among others: people pc, earthlink...) have "free trial" cd's/disc that you can pick up at no charge in many electronic departments/stores. AOL can be charged to your monthly Verizon phone bill, too, (as can other providers), so you never need a credit card. You can use the service for up to 6 months/a year in some cases and never pay a dime. It's worth looking into.

Answer 11

once in a while you'll run into this even on yahoo. if it's detected that you're signing a child up under 13, it tries to link that child's e-mail to yours. usually, the credit card number is just to confirm that there IS a parent involved. they won't charge you for anything--at all.

if you really don't have one, try these things:

--close the window and try again.
--get mozilla firefox (a different browser, www.firefox.com).

for any questions, e-mail me. hope i helped! ;)