Studies that exist rely on the counting of sex acts. ... However, television is omnipresent, and both newscasts and TV dramas now confront a child with political corruption, dysfunctional families, and ambiguous role models that challenge the moral affiliation between parents and their children. ... Programs reflected this new sad reality as a new generation of action-packed adventure shows either from primetime dramas to daytime cartoons, in which the "good guys" were virtually in...

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Introduction Many children watch television everyday, and recent studies indicate that children watch between three to four hours of television a day. ... According to a recent study, three out of four hour-long programs on network television contain some sort of sexual content (Kaiser Family Foundation, 1996). ... Recent studies have been conducted that provide notable statistics regarding the amount of sexual content in television. ... Not all of the programs that deal with sexual situations are written just for humor or drama. According to this study, 6% of the shows containing sexual...

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