Implementing changes to the MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America, rating system eliminates foul behavior, protects children's environments, and models appropriate language expected from them. The current rating system hurts places such as school, streets, and the home environment. For example, if a teenager watches a NC-17 movie, he might act older. Since the content is restricted from teenagers, it will instigate teens to act more mature and want to act as the actors (Gustafson 1). He is now mimicking older citizens as if he was a young toddler learning how to speak, Theaters need to improve security and cameras for the movie theater.
To begin, Motion Picture Association of America reshapes behavior in children dramatically. The MPAA has guided children the wrong direction. Allowing young adolescences to sneak into a movie theater and affect their brain maturity will hurt the children in the end. However, there is more than one person to blame than just the theater staff, we can also blame the parents as well. Some parents today think their job as a parent is completed after they walk and talk. They seem to think if they keep their child busy, the parents are doing their job. Marjorie J. Hogan, a pediatric clinic found that:
In 1999, 41% of families were on-line, and 48% of children boasted a television set in their bedroom.
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The media violence issue made its official debut on Capitol Hill [Washington, D.C.] in 1952 with the first of a series of congressional hearings. That particular hearing was held in the House of Representatives before the Commerce Committee. The following year, in 1953, the first major Senate hearing was held before the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency, who convened a panel to inquire into the impact of television violence on juvenile delinquency. (McIntyre