Reply #182: It's no wonder we have a generation of young people who are addicted to tv, guns, violence, video ga

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I agree. From many of the comments here, parents are just not paying attention or not caring about what their children are being exposed to. I am surprised that more people don't think that constant violence and sex on tv do not affect the psyche of their children.

Than being said, we let our kids watch the original trilogy at about age 7. But the next is much darker, especially Anakin murdering all of the children, the dismembered burning body of Anakin...just sick and twisted.

My kid is now a Star wars fanatic. I know more about it than I ever thought possible. He's read all the books (there are 20 different series of continuations of the story) plays the miniatures games etc, video games(not the sick and twisted ones) Even though it is violent, it has encouraged him to learn how to make his own movies, he can create his own ships and animate them in the blender program currently used by professionals in the movie making industry. He uses a green screen to act out his own movies and put them into a set that he created on blender as well. It has been an incredible inspiration to him so I would never consider taking it away from him. There just has to be balance.

We all agree that we will not accept sick and twisted mindless killing video games of any sort. There are so many great video games out there, they don't need to play the ones where you just walk down the halls killing anything that moves, sort of like Ft Hood and the other killings we read about every day. How can anyone think those do not affect at least some people in our society?

I am personally very worried about the direction of our society. We Homeschool. We don't have a TV antenna and only watch movies. The crap on TV is ruining children's minds. They should not have to worry about being sexy at 10 either. Children weren't having sex in the bathroom or classroom when I was in middle school. I think it is abnormal to be thinking about it at that age, but every tv show has adults dressing and acting like whores, viagra ads every commercial break....won't anyone think of the children? BASIC psychology tells us that yes, what children are exposed to on a constant basis does affect their thinking and perception of reality.