Ok I am no parent. However with organizations such as the Parents Television Council of America, it really shows how overprotective a parent in this country is.

Lets take a look at Parentstv.org, PTC’s official website. On their website you can look up a TV show and see what they, the council, review it as. You have a green, yellow and red light. Compiled from sub categories such as Sex, Language and Violence. All terribly bad things apparently.

For example the show House, about a doctor who uses questionable tactics to cure his patients with a team of doctors. The scenes can be graphic, I’ll admit (anything involving an eye… YUCK!). The PTC rates this their worst rating, RED! It gets a red for sex and language. A yellow for violence (even though in almost every episode the patient is restrained and shock, Dr. House was shot in Season 2’s finale episode, even showing the blood stains in Season 3’s 1st & 2nd episode).

Now lets take a look at 7th Heaven, voted Green all across the board. Meaning it gets the PTC’s blessing. How in the world could this show get a green. A show about a protestant reverend, his wife and their many children. I say many. They have seven children. That is abnormally high. The parents can be considered rabbits with the way they procreate. Then on top of that, all of their childeren seem to get married 2 years out of high school, on average. Oh and the oldest daughter, Mary, has seemingly cheated on her husband AND then cheated on her lover who she chose to stay with. Is this the thing you want to teach your children?

In conclusion, I’d rather have my kids watch House or War at Home and teach them that TV is FICTION then to show them 7th Heaven, which according to the PTC, “The Rev. Eric Camden and his wife, Annie, have created an atmosphere conducive to honesty and open communication.”. If I want my TV to teach my children I’ll turn on Discovery, but most importantly I know I will have failed as a parent if I need to show my kids 7th Heaven in order for them to learn a lesson or two.

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