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Play with Violent Themes:
Raising Children in the 21st Century

Issues of Concern-Language/Sex/Violence
When Parents and Grandparents were asked to focus specifically on things available to children today, including movies, television, game and toys, Sexual content and Violent themes are listed as concerns for slightly more than half of Parents and Grandparents.

- Moms are clearly more concerned than Dads, particularly when it come to graphic or adult language.

Parental Intervention
Moms intervene in potentially violent situations more often than Dads or Grandparents.

- Moms are also more likely to miss opportunities to intervene when, perhaps, they felt they should have.

Reason for Intervention
For the most part, this intervention was to protect the child from media depictions of violence, NOT FROM AN ACTUAL THREAT OF VIOLENCE.

- However, in about 1 in 4 cases, intervention was to protect the child from potential bodily/mental harm.


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