Besides, a social factor plays a huge role as well. Children communicate with other children and share their experience and knowledge with each other. It might happen that one of the children has something that others don’t have yet, so, these kids would persuade their parents to buy this thing, whether it is a toy or a gadget, to be on the same page with the peer friends. However, parents may not be able or may not want to meet all of their child’s desires due to lack of money or perhaps because they may disagree that the product is a necessity for their child. The Hub Pages Internet magazine’s article “Unethical Advertising Targeting Kids” (2014) addresses exactly this issue. According to it, “advertisers try to make the child
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a parents’ refusal or failure to purchase the product requested by their child may create conflict between them or may even damage their relationship (1991, p.2). As can be noticed, parents are not the only source of influence for the kids. Hence, they can’t be the only one to cope with the problem of prohibiting kids to have something they want because of a TV commercial or poster that they have seen. The scale of the problem is enormous and even is growing every day, as advertising industry develops pretty fast with all these Internet technologies that have recently integrated into our lives. Parents need help to be able to handle children advertising epidemic. And this help should be delivered from the government or state …show more content…
Many different regulations have been established, but none of them worked flawlessly due to the social opinion, corruption, and power of the industry. No matter how many restrictions were applied, the problem of negative impact of advertising on kids is still being unresolved, and its consequences are only growing in number. I believe that we, as people, always need to aim toward better things and seek the greater good. There is no shame or ban on using someone’s practices or successful examples of legislations that can be helpful in a different culture and society, like in my proposed solution with the United States and Sweden. I believe that the solution of borrowing the same regulations from the Swedish practice and applying it to already existed regulations on advertising that is targeting kids in America can be practical and feasible to
a parents’ refusal or failure to purchase the product requested by their child may create conflict between them or may even damage their relationship (1991, p.2). As can be noticed, parents are not the only source of influence for the kids. Hence, they can’t be the only one to cope with the problem of prohibiting kids to have something they want because of a TV commercial or poster that they have seen. The scale of the problem is enormous and even is growing every day, as advertising industry develops pretty fast with all these Internet technologies that have recently integrated into our lives. Parents need help to be able to handle children advertising epidemic. And this help should be delivered from the government or state …show more content…
Many different regulations have been established, but none of them worked flawlessly due to the social opinion, corruption, and power of the industry. No matter how many restrictions were applied, the problem of negative impact of advertising on kids is still being unresolved, and its consequences are only growing in number. I believe that we, as people, always need to aim toward better things and seek the greater good. There is no shame or ban on using someone’s practices or successful examples of legislations that can be helpful in a different culture and society, like in my proposed solution with the United States and Sweden. I believe that the solution of borrowing the same regulations from the Swedish practice and applying it to already existed regulations on advertising that is targeting kids in America can be practical and feasible to