1. ...How We Are Raising a Troubled Generation by Helen Rumbelow
Due to what Rumbelow rightly calls "the rise of the electronic bedsit"," children are not only spending less time interacting with the rest of the world, but they are too subjected to the "aggressive marketing strategies used by major toy and fashion retail companies, by which hopefully the children will be surely be convinced they'd want what has been advertised on TV. ... Leading on from the idea of materialism, Rumbelow enforces her already well-fought argument with the use of statistics, saying they have shown that "by 2004, 80 per cent of the under-12s had a TV in their room"," alo...
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