Children are really sucseptible to the media and whatever it portrays as "cool" and i think its fair to say that kids are effected by the amount of violence and adult material (as syblle pointed out) that is broadcasted on tv today. Look at the soaring amount of violent and Gang crimes commited by teenagers-isn't that telling society something... We're teaching childeren that violence and crime is acceptable and in 50 years time those kids will be running the world!!!