1. Marketing to Children Harmful
Experts Urge Candidates to Lead Nation in Setting Limits
By, David Ojeda

2. Outline Parents are asking for help from policy makers
Limit marketing of violence to children
Psychological and health Consequences
Corporations spend $12 billion per year marketing to children, double as of 1992
By high school children view 360,000 commercials on television
Violent behavior is linked to viewing violence on TV
Children play less creatively due to TV viewing

3. Parents are asking for help from the president of the United States
In a letter, the Center for Media Attention CME, joined 50 scholars, educators and health experts to write a letter to top politicians asking them to decrease the amount of marketing aimed at children. They asked key politicians to protect children from harmful marketing strategies.

5. Limiting Marketing of Violence to Children
Violent TV causes young children to act out
Professional wrestling and PG 13 programming promotes violence in children
100 studies over 30 years have proven that TV violence is directly related to children’s violence with each other.
Children’s play is connected to what they see on TV

7. Psychology and Health
Children are eating junk food that they see on TV
Children are becoming obese by watching too much TV and eating the junk food that is being advertised
Young girls see the images of models and are not happy with their own bodies

9. Marketing to Children
Other countries do not directly market to children.
In the USA, psychologists are used to understand how best to brainwash children to purchase certain items
Children influence over $500 billion per year in purchases

10. How Children React to Commercials
Children are more susceptible to advertising than adults.
They cannot distinguish between the programming and the commercial. This is the advantage for commercial sales.
Older teens and adults have more experience in understanding the idea of advertising.
Teens and adults can “tune out”, children are bombarded with images.

11. Viewing TV makes for less creative children
Viewing violence causes violent behavior in children.
As a result of TV, children do not think critically and creatively. They are bombarded with images and do not create their own ideas