I don't know if having their own tvs influences kids so much as the parents influence on them. I had a tv when I was young. I had to turn it off at a certain time during the week. On the other end, I grew up with a girl who couldn't watch tv at all. Because of her sheltered childhood, she kind of had a nervous breakdown at the age of 22 and is weird now.

I don't think that life without tv helped her, nor do I think life with tv hurt me, I knew right from wrong. I knew what my parents expected of me. Parents let their televisions raise their children.

This is what pisses me off. They won't allow certain topics about sex to be discussed in schools. The education system has to walk a very fine line when it comes to sex education. But they will let their kids watch MTV and BET and whatever other shows that are sexually based, and their kids develop unreal and inaccurate ideals and expectations of sex. Then who do parents blame then?

"Men often stumble on the Truth, but usually dust themselves off & hurry away..." - Winston Churchill