Adult Oriented Commercials

Adult-oriented content is showing up everywhere these days. I have seen a young woman’s rear end hanging out of short shorts displayed in our billboards. I have seen commercials advertising sexual enhancements and genital enlargement during family programming and children programming.
Our children and families are subjected to adult-oriented materials daily. We have freely allowed the media to fashion us and to think for us. Freedom of speech does not provide for the pollution of our families and children of which the advertisers and the media subtly air during family time and display in the path of our children. The intent of freedom of speech was never to allow adult-oriented contents to be placed in the common path of families and children.

Heres the issue;

Our children are watching cartoons on television and are subjected to "Male Enhancement" ads.

Our familes are watching TV during family hours and adult shows and product advertise with suggestive, provacative material.

Background

Our homes are supposed to be a sanctuary for our children. However, with the media's aggressive drive for more profits, our homes have become their easy prey; our innocent children, their innocent unsuspecting victims.

The media is out of control and is coming as uninvited guests into our homes, onto billboards on the roads we travel. into our lives, most especially into our children’s lives. Our children are thrust into an uneven playing field where they are destined to lose—unprepared, unarmed, unaided.

Parents and kids advocates alike are finding out that TV violence, sex and coarse language are not limited to TV programs; they are also concerned about content in ads for alcohol or Viagra or other similar products where the kids are unduly exposed to such inappropriate, offensive, and abusive commercials that are more geared toward certain consumer groups and age.

Let's talk about reasonable expectations. I want to be a bit more specific as to what I am referring.  What would be some reasonable expectations for families in regards to their children and daily life?

I firmly believe that parents have the primary role of protecting their children from all that might harm them. That being said, I think that parents are reasonable to expect that when children and family programming is on TV or cable that NO adult material would be aired.

I think that it is reasonable to expect that a child could drive in a car with their family and NOT be subjected to Adult material on billboards.

I think that it is reasonable to expect that when we take our children to a movie that is rated G or PG,  that NO adult material would be aired, and that there would be NO previews with a higher rating than the movie that the family has paid to see.

I think that it is reasonable to expect that children be placed in a position of higher regard than corporate profit.

I think that it is reasonable to expect that there are men and woman who would prefer to NOT be subjected to profane language and promiscuous material.