Banning Advertisements Targeting Children

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I feel as a country we should ban advertisements targeting children. Espcially with all the money we spend. Some advertisements give kids negative ideas. Also, some kids brains are not fully developed to make the rite descion. Imagine how much money we spend a year on advertisements. Why waiste all this money, when we can start using it on things that can help our country out. For example, we can use all that money on things to cut back on the crime rate.That can help out our country in a major way. We can also use the money on building more schools, hospitals or parks. That can help out our youth alot. Especially with all the free time kids got today.They can go kill time, instead of watching advertisments thats not helping them in no type of way. This is what we can spend the money on, that we use to target gullable children. The advertisments also …show more content…
Especially with all the advertisements we got on tv today. They can be watching cartoons, and a inappropiate commercial comes on. How do they no the difference between rite, and wrong. Their brains aren't fully developed yet. They may think it's all cool, but really its not. One arguement stated that a restaurant invested forty million dollars promoting healthy choices. Thats a perfect exmple when making the rite descion as a kid. These are some examples when a kid isn't fully matured and will make a wrong descion all because a advertisement told them otherwise. I agree when it comes to banning advertisements targeting children. When we spend all this money, when were able to use it on something helpful. Some of these commercials have negative effect on our kids today. Some kids aren't fully matured enough to no whats rite and wrong. So when it comes to banning advertisements targeting kids I support it one hundred

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