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Filed under: In The News, Alcohol & Drugs, Teen Culture, Research Reveals: Big Kids, Development: Tweens, Research Reveals: Tweens, Development: Teens, Behavior: Teens, Research Reveals: Teens
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Ever wonder if you're a bit over protective about what you let your child watch? Think the other parents roll their eyes behind your back? Well, vindication is yours: A new study shows that middle schoolers who aren't allowed to watch R-rated films are significantly less likely to start drinking than their peers whose parents are less restrictive.
Researchers from the Dartmouth Medical School identified nearly 3,600 New England middle school students who said they had never had a drink. In a follow-up survey conducted 13 to 26 months later, only 3 percent of the kids whose parents never let them see R-rated films said they had started drinking, compared with 19 percent of those whose parents "sometimes" let them watch such films and 25 percent whose parents did "all the time," according to the article, published in the May issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
To make sure the lower drinking rates weren't a result of more careful parenting in general, the researchers accounted for such involvement by asking questions that gauged how responsive and how demanding kids thought their parents were. Even considering those factors, exposure to R-rated films was still linked to the likelihood of early drinking.
Such films put kids at risk not only because 90 percent of them depict drinking, but also because kids who watch R-rated movies become more prone to "sensation seeking," according to the researchers.
"We think seeing the adult content actually changes their personality," the study's lead author, Dr. James Sargent, says in a statement.
The authors concede that their sample was largely white, and write that similar studies should be conducted among a more diverse group of children.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
4-27-2010 @ 4:11PM
Snowhite70736668 said...First of all I would like to say I was under seventeen when I started watching Rated R- films.
Also, it didn't encourage me to drink.
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4-27-2010 @ 2:30PM
gobluespartyon said...This is a baseless study that doesn't have there facts right it was a joke and full of lies. I don't believe the sampling was right I don't think it changes teens personalitys if they watch R rated movies it didn't for me anyways. This study is wrong and baseless no merit what so ever.
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4-27-2010 @ 2:44PM
Marci said...Perhaps a study should be done on the correlation between teens watching rated-R movies and poor spelling and grammer!
4-27-2010 @ 6:44PM
gobluespartyon said...You're wrong Maci grammer and spelling are overrated online Maci. And who made you the grammer and spelling police who I can't stand at all it shows you're a loser that needs to get a life.
4-27-2010 @ 3:43PM
JOANNA said...Just another batch of crap.
If they want to test something important, They should try
testing the effect that all the drip drip drip...water on limestone, perscription drug commercials have on people.
This effects all ages, and runs, round the clock on ALL channels. That is to make sure there is no escape from the subconscious effect it is bent on.
Turn off the sound folks, so their hucksters can't brain wash you. .
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4-27-2010 @ 7:21PM
Michele W said...I cant see how this study could be right. I have let my son who is 8 watch pg13 movies and depending on what it is an r one maybe 1 or 2 times. If it had sex in it or alot of killing,deopending on how graphic the killing is too, and he doesnt think drinking is any cooler or smoking is cooler because he sees it on the movies. If you talk to your kids about drinking and drugs and not just telling them its bad but showing them what can happen, I think the kids will be less likley to drink. For instance my husband drank alot when he was younger and had some wrecks that were very bad and he almost died. I showed my son these pictures and pictures of what his dad looked like after the wreck and said see this is what happens when you drink and drive and do drugs. Then my cousin who was like a sister to me, we were only 8 months apart and were always together, got killed by a drunk driver. My son saw how iteffected me and how sad it made evryone including him and said why do people drink when they end up killing people. My son was really effected by this and still is to this day because he misses her so much. This is the part that parents need to show thier kids not just say it is bad. it might be a little harsh but it works and gets the point across.If you do your job as a parent then watching r movies isnt going to make your kids a drunk. I watched them and i actually becoming a humane officer and dont drink or even smoke. You make your own choices on how educated you are at the time.
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5-26-2010 @ 10:13AM
LO said...This study has no validity. Its complete crap in my eyes to influence parents to be less lenient with their child. So if they stopped making R-rated movies there would be no underage drinking? Stupid.
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2-16-2011 @ 6:36PM
optmusmikey said...this complete BS Rated R movies are okay for kids to watch as a kid I watched Rated R movies and I'll let my kids watch them to dont care how much blood, gore, violence, sex it includes theyll be able to watch it
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