Part 1

Please answer the following questions.

1) Do the media control our lives? 

2) Do you trust the News Media?

Part 2

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, children ages 8-18 spend an enormous portion of their day using media (TV, music, video games.) Media is a huge socializing agent!

Read over the website Campaign for a commercial-free childhood.
http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issues

Explain 3 effects of the media and marketing from the Campaign for the Commercial-Free Childhood. (Choose 3 of the following topics to discuss; Materialism, Marketing to Toddlers, Food Marketing, Violence, Sex, Marketing & Body Image).

Part 3
Family Problems
Choose one social problem that occurs in the family and in your opinion how can this issue be fixed. Can the government or public policy help? What about education or religion help to fix this issue in family life? Use the readings to back up your response.

https://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issueshttp://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issue/marketing-eating-disorders-and-body-imagehttp://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issue/marketing-babies-and-toddlershttp://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issue/materialistic-values-and-family-stresshttp://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issue/sexualizing-childhoodhttp://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issue/media-violencehttp://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issue/marketing-children-overviewhttp://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issue/advertising-schoolshttp://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issue/commercializing-toys-and-playhttp://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/issue/food-marketing-and-childhood-obesity