Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Magazines 'need age rating'

According to BBC news (2004), girls’ magazines should be limited age of the reader to protect children to read about unsuitable substance. There are many reasons that magazines should have an age rating. Firstly, they affect to ‘Promiscuous behavior’. Magazines sometimes give some free gifts, like a lip gloss, a CD or something that aimed at a pre-teenager reader, but they are wrong. These ideas are very misinformed (Periodical Publishers Association [PPA]). Mr. Surman, the father of three girls aged four, seven and 10, said that magazines were not the place for children to learn about sex. Children spend more times reading them during their free time, so parents should realize what their children are reading. Secondly, they affected to ‘Better education’. Schools and health worker help each other to improve sex education, but some children learn about it in the magazines and they think like everyone might do it too, so it is not a good thing. Mr. Surman, of Cantrell Primary School, said that we should have a certification system in place for magazine like films, videos and computer games have. The last one is 'Unworkable'. A certification system would be impractical and unworkable (PPA). While children could not buy the magazines, they could buy something else in the internet, so it is not easy to limit an age rating of magazines’ reader. In conclusion, a thing that parents should do must be taking care of their children more than now for prevent their children from unsuitable content in the Girls’ magazines.

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