Is Self Regulation Enough?

In this forum on kid's advertising, it talks about how much companies spend on advertising which was upwards to $20 billion a year. This false advertising has upped kids obesity and is now a huge problem in kids nationwide. The end of the forum is about how the media should control freedom of speech in these ads and the protection of children that are suffering because of this. 

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Enter Your Voice:  Why is the government involved at all? Aren’t parents responsible for their children’s well-being?

• The government is not for helping us and that is part of the problem, but at some point, you have to blame the parents. Parents have the ultimate say in what their kids watch, eat, etc. We cannot rely on the government to control anything. It is up to oursleves to control what we put into our bodies and what we allow our family to watch. 

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