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The other possible correlation that I thought of was, kids who lack supervision are probably more likely to have sex and watch sexy shows. The cause is probably parenting.
This was a study by Rand, not the Gubment. So why do you say, "Nanny State" in the headline? Are the Republicans trying to censor these sexy shows?
Kids more willing to engage in sexual activity at younger ages might ALSO be interested in shows that are sexy. Imagine that. Any idea that preventing kids from watching certain TV shows can prevent them from engaging in dangerous or risky behavior is moronic. If, however, that was part of a larger strategy of actually PARENTING the kid, then perhaps you would be onto something.
Like, for instance, a corollary to my original thought:
Parents who don't much care what their kids watch, generally don't much care what else their kids do, either.
And I'm not convinced that we we looked closely at the situation, we wouldn't find a causal relationship. No, I'm not predicting that every girl who watches SITC will become a slut, or that every boy who watches "Psycho" will become one.
Rather, there is a certain power of suggestion that Madison Avenue has been using for decades, and that there is a certain likelihood that when you watch certain things, you are more likely to choose those things.
Kinda like a Coke commercial might help you choose Coke over Pepsi. If it doesn't work, advertisers owe a lot of money back to their customers.
You're wrong, Rob.
Simple.
I you don't think what people surround themselves with effects their thinking, you should think more on it.
My inlaws raised two kids with severe restrictions on TV. And, they are far more polite people, with far stronger attention spans than otherwise would be.
If you don't think Sexual content in the mix is any problem, how about just telling your young girls that behaving in an overtly sexual maner all the time is normanl, and totally excepted behavior.
Raise your own that way. Not mine.
Then it's not causal. It corralative.
Rather, what we have here is an argument "Factor X is likely to increase the likelihood of behavior Y by Z%."
There are numerous studies, by the way, that do show clear changes in behavior, especially among the young, in communities as they got television for the first time back in the 1950s and 1960s.
Now I'm not in favor of government making all the rules here, but I am in favor of parents acting on what ought to be obvious; what you watch influences how you will act. Hence, if Junior is a SITC or "Psycho" junkie, maybe Mom and Dad need to take him aside and sketch out some different viewing habits.
Goodness gracious, you don't need a doctorate's degree from the Sigmund Freud Institute to figure on this.
[quote]It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
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Anna Freud
Watching on TV, "Sex in The City" with your 13-14 year old daughter and letting her dress like a bowery whore in public may be sending the wrong messgae.....
I've always found that there's a really strong coralation between watching Sex and the City, and being being an annoyingly dim person.
You got that one right.
A lot of worn-out middle-age women like to sit around and do these things and vicariously live unfilled lives through their daughters. They go out and shop with their children, try to be hip with their children, and most detrimental, absolve their children of bad behavior because try are convinced they missed something like this in youth.
The sooner they realize that full-fulling their youthful fantasies and desires versus becoming an adult, and being a responsible parent is more important; the more good kids we will have.
What's wrong with turning that crap "off" if you have kids in the house?