Playing for Keeps

Play with Violent Themes
Raising Children in the 21st Century
March 2003

About Leo J Shapiro & Associates, LLC
For over 50 years LJS has conducted original research to answer questions for which answers cannot be found in books. This research is used to generate ideas for it's clients and to challenge these ideas, empirically, and discard those that are false.

Methodology
Data are from interviews conducted in February 2003.

A US national representative sample of 450 households interviewed by telephone.

- Respondents reporting for each household divide equally between women and men.
- The sample is a random-digit, Waksberg-type derived from all telephone households in the U.S.

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It is becoming increasingly clear through research on the brain as well as in other areas of study, that childhood needs play. Play acts as a forward feed mechanism into courageous, creative, rigorous thinking in adulthood.

--Tina Bruce, Professor, London Metropolitan University