When families settle down for the night, are all the shows appropriate?
Most families watch about 3 hours of TV per day. But when it gets to 9 pm, is it always appropriate?
On Friday and Saturday nights - when children can stay up for longer - families could be inclined to turn on their TV. But due to foul language or inappropriate scenes, the TV is often turned off.
Some parents said :
"After my children have gone to bed we usually watch The Graham Norton Show or Match of the Day. Most of the things on TV are really boring or inappropriate."
“I don’t like my children being exposed to swearing and rude scenes on TV, something should be done because it shouldn't be the case that we have to change the channel as soon as ‘something’ comes up."
“Nowadays you can’t even watch the X Factor without there being some sort of reference to something rude. It doesn't have to be rude to be funny.”
A children’s TV channels end at a certain time, children might have to resort to something that is ‘above their age’. A 12-year-old girl said: ” I hate it when people swear, it sounds horrible. I don’t see why when people swear it’s funny.”
There are lots of resolutions for this problem; we could put age limits on the TV shows and you would have to have permission to watch the show. Or we could just ban people from swearing on TV or, for that matter, in our streets.
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