Eva M. Clayton: “I agree. There is a lot of opportunity for parents to give monitoring guidance and advice about not only the magazines…”

“I agree. There is a lot of opportunity for parents to give monitoring guidance and advice about not only the magazines they read, the music they hear, the shows they look at, but that comes from parents being engaged with their young people and taking some responsibility and not leaving it indiscriminately to their young people to buy whatever they want or watch whatever TV they watch. Also parents ought to express concerns to the media. Still, it is a market-driven situation. If there were enough parents speaking out, young people are going to like different music from what their parents liked. What we call rock and roll, our parents called something else. So you should expect that. Young people want their music. Your music is called the oldies. They do not want to hear that stuff. My kids used to turn the radio when they got in my car. They knew where it was. So you have got to have an opportunity for them choosing their own music. So the idea is to set standards for them to select within their sphere. You cannot make them like what we like. That is inconceivable, for young people to embrace what their parents liked. But we can have standards by saying what is acceptable for your development, what is ideal for your character formation. Those are things that come from parents engaging, and not enough parents are there, so institutions must be engaged. To ignore that is to relegate too many young people to the street, and we will continue having what is happening already.”