Study Shows Parents are Becoming Desensitized to Violent Content

The Annenberg Public Policy Center released a study that shows parents are becoming increasingly tolerant of violent and sexual content in movies. The study consisted of 1,000 people who were shown a variety of graphic scenes from PG-13 and R rated movies. Some of the films clips included in the study came from movies like ‘Die Hard’, ‘Casino Royale’, and ‘8 Mile’. PG-13 movies were included because these days the PG-13 rating comes with more violence that it used to. In some cases, a PG-13 film might have more violence than one rated R, but it would escape the R …