Kids' TV Contains 'Dark, Sinister' Violence, Pro-Family Advocate Warns
By Mary RettigMarch 10, 2006

(AgapePress) - The director of research and publications for the Parents Television Council (PTC) says violence pervades children's programming -- and it's not the "cartoonish" kind of violence with which many adults are familiar from their own childhoods.

The PTC recently completed a study of television programming specifically created for young kids. The pro-family media watchdog group revealed its disturbing findings in a report called "Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: A Content Analysis of Children's Television" (See related story).

According to the PTC's Melissa Caldwell, the not-so-surprising revelation of this study is that much of kid-targeted TV is not terribly child-friendly. In fact, she notes, the study found children's shows contain -- amid all kinds of offensive and troubling content -- twice the amount of violence to be found in adult primetime shows. The rest