To parents: What theme is worse in movies for your kids?

Question

1.Language

2.Sexual content

3.Violence

4.Crude humor

5.Drug/alcohol use

6.ect.

I was talking to my friends mom and she said language was the worst. I'm 16 and I really don't like sexual content,makes everyone uncomfortable depending on who youre watching it with.

What do you think?

Answer 1

It always depends on the movie.

What is permissible in one is totally outrageous in another.

But the one thing I will not allow is promoting domestic violence, against women or men. That is the one thing completely not tolerated in our house.

Answer 2

1.) Sexual content (worst, because children don't need to be exposed to pornographic content)

2.) Drug/Alcohol Use

3.) Crude Humor

4.) Violence

5.) Language

-That is the order for me.  That goes from worst of the worst to the least of the worst.  Sexual content is harder to erase from your memory and actually it's probably impossible.

Answer 3

violence,crude humor,and language because it something they hear and see so they good copy it.

Answer 4

violence.

Answer 5

Sexual content, violence, language, Crude humor , drug.alcohol use

Thats how i rank them, and roughly thats how my parents rank them. I remember being told to leave the room or shut my eyes and cover my ears during some s*x scenes in movies. Most of the time when i was younger i did it willing because those scenes bothered me.

Answer 6

Sexual content...hands down.

I can explain the language to them: some people say bad words.  I can tell them violence is wrong and that person is bad.  I can also tell them that drugs and alcohol are bad for them and only people who don't know how bad it is  do it.  Crude humor goes over their head.  But sexual content...how can I explain to a five year old why that woman is rubbing her body all over that man.  Five year old don't even have a guess as to why someone would do that, and the older ones (I have teens, too) don't need to see it done before they are old enough to it it themselves.

Plus., it promotes promiscuity, which is something DO NOT encourage.

Answer 7

I agree with you. All of it is bad, but the sexual content makes me uncomfortable too, and I'm 37! lol

I have 4 young boys and it is hard to find movies that don't have that garbage in it.

Answer 8

I dunno... I think it was the sexual content that my parents were most worried about, cause we got exposed to the other stuff (especially the drug and alcohol use) pretty much every day of the week in the not-so-great neighborhood we grew up in. My parents never minded violence, either, but that was cause the kind of movies we'd watch with violence in them would be like Star Wars or Lord of the Rings, where the violence was epic, good-vs-evil, fantasy battles, as opposed to some gangland battle or whatever.

Answer 9

all 6.

Answer 10

I think the sexual content. I mean with drug use, it's usually not a pretty site to watch anyhow.

If my kids were teens I would have the most problem with the way that s*x is glamorized in movies. Especially, casual s*x.

Answer 11

Sexual content. Simply because it concerns the most intimate part of your body. I saw an adult magazine left behind by a renter when I was little. That image stayed in my mind till my adulthood and it has affected me. You can teach your children about the other things but s*x - they have to be adult in body and mind in order to appreciate and understand it.

Answer 12

language: it is a choice. i don;t say it in front of my kids, therefore no one else will. sexual content: im uncomfortable now, but when they are no longer virgins(lol) im sure that will change!! i want them to ask ME about s*x an things. so far, they have (my kids are 13,13 and 8) violence: horror movies are usually ok with me. they are old enough to understand it is not real. we are all horror buffs at my house, however, my 8 year old doesn't like them, so i will go and watch something different with him. under the age of 8, i would say no. only because i personally don't think they are ready yet. crude humor: who cares, 90% of what i have seen, my kids don't usually get anyway. it depends how derogatory it gets. if it is sexual in nature ( duece bigalow, american pie-no way!,  adam sandler stuff, that is fine.) drug and alcohol use doesn't bother me at all. i actually tape the documentaries on nat. geo and a&e an we watch them with my older ones together. they need to be informed, and we end up having great discussions about it.  my parents were strict, i coulnd't watch anything above pg-13 while i lived there. i love my parents, but i wish they wouldn't have kept me so confined. i asked questions of other people because i felt if i talked to my mother about something she wouldn't even let me watch, i would get in trouble. i won't let that happen with my kids.- i think i have made the right choices with this so far, becuase my kids actually call me from their friends if they want to watch a movie and they don't know if i will approve. that tells you that i give them enough leeway that they don't feel they have to sneak when i am not around!!!

Answer 13

Sexual content. I can handle the bad language and violence. My children understand drugs and alcohol are bad. They know bad language is not tolerated. They also know violence in movies is fantasy. But graphic sexual content is NOT something they are allowed to watch.

Answer 14

I would say all are pretty much the same but the top ones are sexual content then language then violence. Those are the worst.

Answer 15

Umm... all of them to be honest. LOL. At 16 you know what you like and don't like, you have a choice to see what you want to and don't want to. But for kids that don't have a choice really, like G and PG movies, I would prefer not to see any of that. Violence is in these movies...... KUNG FU PANDA. I don't know, I don't like the idea of these things. That's why cartoons bother me a little, the cartoons today are crazy and have little plots. Don't get me wrong, we didn't learn too much back in the day with the original ninja turtles or anything. But things like Captain Planet, there was little violence but it had meaning behind it. I don't know, that's just me.

Answer 16

Depends on age and mature level of kids but generally movies and shows that are rated G, PG, and PG 13 are suitable for kids.

Answer 17

sexual content, def.

Answer 18

Personally I think violence, sexual content and drug/alcohol use can be the 3 most worst themes...viewing them can make a person think its okay to do those things.  They may see their favorite actor or actress doing those things and think it is cool and appropriate to do them as well.

Answer 19

Personally, our family standards exclude any movies with sexual content or crude humor, and that's for adults too.  Violence would depend on the extent and purpose of it (i.e. a war documentary may show a battlefield picture without being excessively gruesome).  Language would depend on the extent (a single passing d*** wouldn't by itself rule a movie out, but more than a few would).  Drug/alcohol use would depend on whether it was shown positively and extent of it.

The vast majority of movies that come out in a given year are ones that we'd neither let our children see, nor see ourselves, and that applies to G-rated ones that often have crude humor and poor messages like the child rebelling against the parent and being the right one that saves the day in the end and such.  We have no desire to entertain ourselves with movies that have messages and content displeasing to God.  And yes, we are in the minority, even among Christians.

Answer 20

crude humor.

sexual content.

oh, and i'm not a parent, i'm a sister :D

Answer 21

Violence is my worst.  Then comes drug use, then language, then crude humor...  Sexuality doesn't bother me much, it's natural.  As long as it isn't promiscuous sexual behavior, or too graphic, I don't mind my kids seeing it.