MPAA SURVEY: PARENTS WANT F-WORD BARRED IN PG-13 MOVIES

The MPAA has commissioned a survey of U.S. parents to determine whether they wish the organization to overlook bad language — in particular the use of the F-word — in assigning ratings to films, the Los Angeles Times reported today. It quoted Joan Graves, who heads the MPAA’s ratings board, as saying that the survey […]

DO TODDLERS SEE MORE OF THEIR TV THAN THEIR PARENTS?

Some 17 percent of British parents of children aged four and younger have installed a TV set in the kids’ bedrooms, according to the London Daily Mail, which cited retail researchers Mintel. Younger parents are particularly more likely to have put a TV set in their four-and-under children; 28 percent have, according to the Mintel […]