Hi JC, You would have to encompass the "big picture" when I say that.
One of the things we as adults tend to forget, is did we see this kind of crap, when we where that age ? , hell NO, Bugs Bunny was the worst it got, AND I might add, there was NOT blood and guts, hell, I'm F'd up enough from Willie E when I was that age, let alone seeing the real thing.
Today's parents (I'm speaking for parents 20 years ago and up) have been given the rawest hand of society, to cope with, DOOM is a good start (it's about 20 years old now), friends kid saw that shit at age 7, guess what (it was an accident, dad was playing, kid walked in), kid needed counselling at age 9, F'd up totally, that is one example that was very close to home for my & his families.
It's NOT just the shows, it's the OTHER kids seeing the shows, and peering the kid that is messed up, it's the parents, it's the all mighty dollar and our obsession with it, it's all kinds of shit, but mainly it's the home, and how those parents raised the child.
you can say, no way, it's the kid him/her self, naw, see, if the parents where doing the correct thing, and studying how to be a parent, and reading up on what to watch for in their kids, instead of "leading the good life" the kid would not have been so F'd up in the first place.
Or, the fact that the parents have to "work there fingers to the bone" to cover the cost of living (middle class, like me), they would have had more time to notice and interact with their kids (me included).
TG, mine are at least somewhat sane, it saddens me to think I fell most way into that trap, also.
We now live out in the country, horses, grand-kids, a family that actually SPENDS time with each other (even thogh the kids live in the city).
See, I grew Up in Washington D.C. as a white kid, during the back riots, and Martin Luther King.
No, I'm NOT a draft dodger
Greg