Sex And Violence On Tv

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on television and in movies influences their peers to have sexual relations when they are too young. Two-thirds also cited certain programs featuring dysfunctional families as encouraging disrespect toward parents. (http://www.probe.org/docs/sex-viol.html)
The first alternative is the V-Chip. “The V-chip is a technology that lets parent’s block television programming they don’t want their children to watch. Most television shows now include a rating, as established by the Broadcasting industry. (The rating appears in the corner of your television screen during the first fifteen (15) seconds of a program and in TV programming guides.) This rating is encoded into the programs, and the V-chip technology reads the encoded information and blocks shows accordingly. As of January 1, 2000, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required all new television sets 13 inches or larger to contain the V-chip technology.” (http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/vchip.html) some movies that say they have SC (sexual content), but does not say it has nudity. For ...