May 15, 2010 - Bad-time stories
‘Bad-time Stories’ article by Phillip Adams , (The Weekend Australian Magazine March 13-14, 2010)
“Remember the once-upon-a-time time? When children were scared by fairy stories about giants and beanstalks and old crones with gingerbread cottages? The macabre Punch and Judy have long since given way to cinema and television and “childhood innocence” is an oxymoron. Thanks to screens big and little, kids are bombarded with brutal images pretty much as soon as they leave the labour ward. And marketers are well on the way to sexualising children before they start kindergarten.
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